Anaheim : City Named as Finalist in Award Competition
When budget time rolls around each year, most city councils are deluged with a ton of paper work detailing programs and expenses.
In Anaheim, the council and its citizenry face the same paper work and public hearings. But they also have a thoroughly 1980s-style method to explain the city’s programs and plans to spend taxpayers’ money: a video.
Because of its innovative video explaining the budget and the two-year budgetary process, the city has been selected as a finalist for the League of California Cities’ Helen Putnam Award for Excellence.
Anaheim is the only city in the country that produces a two-year executive summary document and a video, city officials said.
An award jury will announce the winner on Wednesday, the last day of the league’s annual conference.
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