The recently enacted local government funding legislation imposes significant changes to the shared revenue program, eliminates the personal property tax, and creates an innovation fund to encourage consolidation and transfer of services to promote cost savings.

Just like any other organization, governmental entities regularly seek the assistance of professional experts in a particular field.  You’re running an operation focused on your core functions; it would be both ineffective and a poor use of finite resources to have people on staff with the technical aptitudes not required on a consistent basis.

While 2023 started out with relative uncertainty, it’s now clear that the US economy will finish the year in a strong, if perhaps slowing, fashion. Annualized Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the 3^rd quarter shows economic growth of 5.2%, the fastest rate since the 4^th quarter of 2021.