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Strathcona County Blazing A PBB Trail in Alberta, Canada

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Priority Based Business Planning and Budgeting – Strathcona County’s PBB budget process provides a tool for allocating resources within a broader and all encompassing Strategic Plan and Business Planning framework. Heading into county budget 2017 Today, council begins its formal budget discussions.

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

A Library Writer's Blog

This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship seeks to hone in on the concept of extraction or extractivism as a logic and operating principle of current forms of capitalism within academic librarianship. 2–3 (May 4, 2017): 175–84. or, the University of Michigan has a vast Filipino collection due to U.S.

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Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

To date, Council and Administration have developed a strategic plan and completed a 4E (efficient, effective, equitable and economical) review of business plan and budget processes. It can also be used by the organization to set targets and determine how resources are aligned, based on priorities.