Legislative Influences on Performance-Based Budgeting Reform - Brief

Using data from several surveys of the states as well as a survey of Georgia state legislators, this report examines the role of legislators in the implementation of performance-based management and budgeting reforms. FRC Brief 12

An Analysis of the Implementation of Program Budgeting in Georgia - Brief

This report discusses the challenges faced by the State of Georgia in the transition to program budgeting. FRC Brief 14

An Assessment of the State of Georgia's Budget Reserves

This report assesses the adequacy of Georgia's revenue shortfall reserve. FRC Report 13

Comparing Georgia's Revenue Portfolio to Regional and National Peers

This report updates FRC report No. 201 from December 2009, describing Georgia's FY2007 revenue and expenditure portfolio as compared to regional and national peers (Buschman 2009). The report uses updated 2008 U.S. Census data and, where available, 2009 and 2010 Census data

Georgia's Redevelopment Powers Law: A Policy Guide to the Evaluation and Use of Tax Allocation Districts

Within the past five years, eleven separate tax allocation districts (TADs) have been created in the metropolitan Atlanta region. Currently, policy-makers in the City of Atlanta are considering the use of TADs to finance the proposed "Beltline" project. While TADs are a powerful tool in a localities' economic development arsenal, these policies are not without cost and not without risk. The sudden surge in popularity of this economic development tool generally has not been accompanied by any systematic assessment or set of policies to guide their evaluation or their use. Thus, this report sets out to familiarize local policy makers with:* How TADs work;* The potential benefits of TADs;* The potential risks and costs associated with TADs and how these might be distributed across different stakeholder groups; and* Policies to help minimize costs and risks

A Briefing on Georgia’s Budget: The Big Picture

Carolyn Bourdeaux, director of the Center for State and Local Finance, presented an update to an earlier budget presentation on Jan. 18, 2017 at the Atlanta Economics Club. This presentation provided an overview of the Georgia budget by addressing structural revenue dilemmas, current economic constraints, areas of concern in the state’s expenditures, and other forces affecting the state budget. It also adds information about Gov. Nathan Deal’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposal

A Briefing on Georgia’s Budget

A Briefing on Georgia’s Budget. A presentation by Carolyn Bourdeaux to the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education on November 14, […

The Changing Shape of State Spending

The Changing Shape of State Spending. A presentation by Carolyn Bourdeaux to the Southern Legislative Conference on September 25, 2012. Click here […

Georgia’s Budget and TABOR

A Briefing on Georgia’s Budget and TABOR. A presentation by Carolyn Bourdeaux to the Georgia Chapter of the AARP on […

A Review of State Tax Reform Efforts

This report reviews the work of 19 state tax commissions, special committees or task forces that have been convened to comprehensively review a state's tax code and summarizes common themes from their final proposals