Preparation of the County's annual budget becomes more challenging each year with the population growth and the ever-increasing demand for quality public services. The annual budget is prepared as a working operational plan that, upon approval, becomes a legal working document for the county. This process is critical and provides many benefits as listed below:
- Provides standards against which actual performance can be measured
- Causes managers to focus their attention from current to future operations
- Allows managers to reassess goals and objectives and the means for accomplishing them
- Improves top management's ability to coordinate the overall operation of the organization
- Facilitates communication throughout the organization
- Assists managers in recognizing when change is needed