AWC

Communicating your budget to your citizens

An AWC Toolkit

This toolkit includes a series of checklists, articles and templates that cities of all sizes can use to communicate more effectively with their citizens. Use in your newsletters, on your website and give to your local media to explain issues like budget, or street maintenance, or the impacts of initiatives and the value of essential city services.

What's below:

  • Reach out to your citizens
  • Connect with your media
  • Communicate your budget info
  • Show your tax dollars at work

Reach out to your citizens

As budgets tighten and your choices become more difficult, it's important to ask your citizens what they think.


Connect with your media

The following checklists give you practical information for working effectively with your local media.


Communicate your budget info

This section includes samples from citizen newsletters, web pages, special budget reports, PowerPoint presentation to citizens, and op-ed piece for a local paper.


Show your tax dollars at work

Here are some ideas to communicate your budget to your citizens.

 

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