Municipal Intelligence

A continuously updated view of your community’s economic and fiscal environment.

Leadership rarely lacks data. It lacks someone watching it. Municipal Intelligence gives a council, a manager, and a finance director one maintained picture of revenue, workforce, population, development, and the peer communities they are measured against, and someone to explain what moved.

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What we monitor

When a statehouse debates income tax, it is debating your general fund.

Most states return a share of income or sales tax collections to their municipalities. Arizona calls it Urban Revenue Sharing; the label differs by state, the exposure does not. A town receives a share of a revenue stream it does not levy, cannot forecast, and has no standing to protect.

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Revenue and state-shared revenues
Own-source collections and the distributions a community depends on, tracked against the state formula and against legislation that would change it.
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Workforce and population
Who lives in the community, who works in it, and how both are changing. The base beneath every revenue projection and every development decision.
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Development and housing
Permits, rooftops, and pipeline, so a council sees the shift before it appears in the next budget cycle.
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Tax base
Assessed value and the composition of the tax base, and how a change in one category reaches the general fund.
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Peer communities
Where the community stands against genuine peers rather than the nearest large city, on reserves, revenue mix, debt, and growth.
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Fiscal resilience
How well the community's finances would absorb a shock, measured by the Economic Resilience Index and updated as filings post.
What you receive

One maintained picture, and the products inside it.

A Municipal Intelligence retainer combines standing monitoring with recurring reports and the analytical capacity a council needs during budget season and legislative session. A fractional chief economist and budget director, shared across the communities that need one.

Product
Economic Resilience Index
A maintained measure of how well the community's finances would absorb a shock, set against five hundred peers and updated as filings post.
Continuous
Revenue and shared-revenue monitoring
Own-source and state-shared revenue tracked continuously, with a forecast rebuilt when the formula, the economy, or the legislature moves.
Quarterly
Peer benchmarking
Reserve levels, revenue mix, debt position, and growth against comparable jurisdictions.
On demand
Fiscal threat modeling
What a proposed income tax change or distribution revision would do to the general fund, projected across five, ten, and twenty years.
Session
Legislative briefing support
A documented brief a manager or mayor can carry to the statehouse, prepared to withstand committee scrutiny and received as analysis by both caucuses.
Living portal
City Leader Portal
A maintained, access-controlled portal for the council, manager, and finance director: budget dashboards, capital project tracking, and public transparency pages residents can read.
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Who this is for

Communities that cannot staff the function, and cannot afford to be without it.

Rural and mid-sized towns and cities whose general fund depends on revenue they do not control. Councils that want to see a shift before the budget cycle exposes it. Managers and finance directors preparing for a session that touches shared revenue. A full-time chief economist costs upward of $130,000 a year. A town of nine thousand cannot carry one.

500+
municipalities under continuous fiscal monitoring. Your community's record is very likely already in the models.
5 / 10 / 20
year projection horizons on every fiscal threat model, prepared for council planning rather than a single session.
1967
the beginning of the longitudinal municipal record beneath the Economic Resilience Index and every forecast we deliver.

Enter the next session with someone watching.

We will prepare a fiscal outlook for your community without fee, showing where it stands against its peers and what the proposals now before your legislature would do to the general fund.

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