Title
Healthy Outcomes, Inc. doing business as Engaged Public
Description
For $27,000.00 in additional payment authority for Balancing Act Software Tool for the Budget and Research Department. The software is an online budget balancing tool branded for the City of Phoenix as “FundPHX”. FundPHX is designed to educate and engage the public in the City’s annual budget development process. Comments on the budget received from the community via the tool are reported regularly to the City Council so it can be used to guide development of the annual General Fund operating budget. The City of Phoenix successfully deployed this tool in February 2020, and the engagement from the public doubled from 200 submissions in 2020 to over 400 submissions in 2021. The original funds requested only paid for one year of service. The additional funds will pay for the remaining two years of the commitment.