Task: Prepare and defend a supplemental budget for an assigned (mostly local) government department.
Purpose: To demonstrate simple budget calculations in preparing a basic budget request and to advocate for that request in a professional manner.
Receive your individual departmental assignment (such as for fire, police, recreation, etc.) from me at the appropriate time.
Take on the role as the budget analyst for the assigned departmental service.
Conduct original research on the assigned service topic by reviewing actual budget documents (found via Internet searches) and subject-matter materials from the GSU (online) library through articles and books to demonstrate you have tried to learn about the service you are budgeting. For example, if you are assigned the Building Inspection department, you should conduct research on what those types of departments perform and what might be some of the budget items that would fit the needs of such an office.
Although you are to frame the proposal for a city in your assigned state, (NORTH DAKOTA) the specifics of the proposal does not have to based on what that city has done in the past.