JUNE 2020
Local Government Spending Priorities in the Wake of COVID-19
How will COVID-19 affect local government budgets? CivicPulse asks local elected officials to project how spending will change over the next year across twelve different program and functional areas. This CivicPulse Insights report was developed with Power Almanac.
Report 1: Overall Spending
For context, we quantify local policymakers’ expectations about changes in both revenue and spending in the next twelve months. The remainder of the report then focuses on overall spending. First, we compare spending projections across twelve different program and functional areas. Second, we disaggregate overall spending projections by a range of local factors (population size, government type, geographic region, COVID-19 incidence, and political leaning).
Projections by Program, Function, and Local Factors
Report 2: Spending Areas
We take a deeper dive into each of the twelve program and functional areas mentioned in Report 1. For each area, we break down our spending projections by a range of local factors (population size, government type, geographic region, COVID-19 incidence, and political leaning).
Program Areas
Health Services
Public Welfare
and Social Services
Sanitation, Sewage,
and Water
Housing and Community Development
Public Works
Public Safety
Roads and Highways
Functional Areas
Capital Investments
Technology
Citizen Communication and Engagement
Workforce
Financial
Administration