Case Study: Tri-Town School Union streamlines budgeting and improves transparency with ClearGov

Tri-Town School Union cuts budget-building cycle from 9 months to 3 months with ClearGov

Tri-Town School Union, a multi-district school union in Massachusetts, faced the challenge of managing three separate, complex budgets across its districts using outdated Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. This manual process, which involved maintaining hundreds of formulas and separate workbooks for personnel and operational costs, was error-prone and stretched their budget-building cycle to nine months. They adopted ClearGov's Operational Budgeting, Personnel Budgeting, and Digital Budget Book solutions to modernize the process and improve transparency.

By implementing ClearGov, the school union streamlined its entire budgeting operation. The solution eliminated manual formula maintenance and automatically generated dynamic charts and graphs. This allowed Tri-Town to shorten its budget development time from nine months to just three, significantly increase accuracy, and present a clearer financial story to stakeholders. ClearGov provided a more efficient, reliable, and transparent process that also aids in future succession planning.

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