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The San Diego Citizens' Budget is a grassroots project involving taxpayers, civic leaders and nationally recognized experts with a mission of evaluating the size and scope of the City of San Diego's short-term budget deficit and long-term liabilities. The Citizens' Budget Project is a comprehensive "performance audit" of each city agency and department with the intention of offering a real set of options for reforming the city government to reduce budget costs while improving the quality of city services. The Citizens' Budget Project is being led by The Performance Institute, a private, nonpartisan think tank based in San Diego. The Institute is the nation's leading government reform think tank, improving government results through the principles of transparency, accountability, competition and performance. With conferences and trainings that develop the skills of thousands of government managers every year and research projects that collect and study the most innovative practices in the nation, The Performance Institute is driving change and improving government.
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San Diego Citizens' Budget Project is not the first time
that The Performance Institute has led a bold initiative for fundamental
change. The reforms now being recommended for the state government
by Governor Schwarzenegger find their roots in the California
Citizens' Budget, which The Performance Institute published
last summer.