Stand up Budget Party for another City

[mateoclarke]

We would like to expand this project to be adoptable by other cities. In order to do this we should research how budgeting works in other cities. This would be a good task for a researcher, data wrangler or policy wonk.

Then, we should make abstractions in our software that move city specific details into config files and accomodate plugging in new data for other cities. I could also see us creating a CSV template to fill out for a city. We could then run an import script that would do the work of dropping the new values from into the right places in config files.

[carlvlewis]

Just wanted to note here that almost all municipalities follow a similar services/departments/divisions budget hierarchy, and that the General Fund is almost a universal fund among muncipalities.

With some good documentation, it would not be terribly difficult to make this more accessibly reproduced; we’re doing it in Savannah!

[carlvlewis]

@mateoclarke We successfully stood up budgetparty at https://savannahbudget.party – could contribute docs is desired.