Case Study: City of Palo Alto achieves budget efficiency and transparency with Euna Budget Professional

Transforming Budget Efficiency and Transparency with a Centralized Solution

The City of Palo Alto, a municipality providing its own utilities, faced significant budgeting inefficiencies. Relying on manual processes and spreadsheets for its $470 million budget across 80 funds led to errors, data inconsistencies, and a time-consuming process for its Office of Management and Budget. To overcome these challenges, the city turned to the vendor Euna Solutions for a new approach.

Euna Solutions implemented its Euna Budget Professional solution, which provided a centralized, cloud-based platform to streamline budget development. This implementation was completed in just four months. The results were substantial, including annual productivity savings of over $85,000, the reallocation of 0.5 FTE to strategic work, and significantly improved transparency and staff retention. Euna Solutions delivered a system that provided real-time financial visibility and transformed the city's budgeting process.

City of Palo Alto

Walter Rossmann

Former Director – Office of Management and Budget