Budget & Long Range Planning Services

Bennett Kielson Storch DeSantis has extensive experience in providing budget consulting services to governmental and school district clients. Our budget consulting projects help elected officials explore all possible avenues for generating revenues and reducing expenditures. Our budget analysis includes identifying trends in revenues and projecting subsequent year revenue estimates. We also identify significant expenditure variances. We prepare a comprehensive report that identifies potential budget modifications as well as a discussion of new initiatives. This report enables government officials to understand the complexities of the budget document. Municipal entities, like the private sector, are subject to the uncertainties of the economy. Fluctuations in the economy are unpredictable and often extend for long periods of time. For these reasons, we have counseled our clients on embracing the private sector practice of creating multi-year budgets. These budgets have proven invaluable to all members of government. They yield information about the future cost of labor settlements, new programs or initiatives, capital spending and the resultant impact on subsequent years property taxes. The services we provide range from the independent preparation of a multi-year plan to a review of a plan prepared by management. The preparation of a multi-year plan is an essential tool in todayâs changing government environment.