By Jessie Weisner (Twitter: @Jessie__Weisner)

Rocky Mountain House Town Council tries new ‘untraditional’ budgeting system

Jun 7, 2018 | 3:50 PM

The Town of Rocky Mountain House is exploring a new ‘untraditional’ budgeting system.

Frank Saccucci with MacEwan University spoke to council Tuesday, offering a new perspective on budgeting. The goal of the system is to re-evaluate controls within the town’s administration, aiming to save money through reducing unnecessary practices.

Saccucci says there’s often too many controls in a government system, ultimately wasting staff time and resources.

Town CAO Dean Krause invited Saccucci to speak and believes a town should always look at how to do things more efficiently.

“We have to think of alternative means to take our taxpayer dollars further,” says Krause. “A lot of that is looking at our internal operations.”

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Saccucci is offering his guidance free of charge, with an ultimate goal of publishing a study on the topic of untraditional budgeting.

As a result, Rocky Mountain House would be featured in the study, the Government Finance Officer Association’s quarterly magazine and a peer review journal.

Krause says the re-evaluation of administration will begin in the finance department in roughly 2 weeks.