Join us virtually for this stop on the Strong Towns Local-Motive Tour 2024, featuring Strong Towns President Charles Marohn and guest speaker Michel Durand-Wood.
LOCATION: Online Event | DATE: September 19, 2024 | TIME: Noon CDT
In order to provide critical life-sustaining services to the public not only today, but for generations to come, cities must be good stewards of the public purse over the long term. Residents must be able to ask, “Can my city afford to continue doing this forever?” The problem is that most people have no idea what the answer is. In this Local-Motive 2024 session, Charles Marohn and longtime member and local budget aficionado Michel Durand-Wood will explore the problems with the way many citizens and leaders view their local budgets and the real questions residents should be asking to determine local fiscal solvency.
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Michel Durand-Wood lives in the Winnipeg neighborhood of Elmwood with his wife and three children. He writes at DearWinnipeg.com, a really fun blog about infrastructure and municipal finance. He has no formal training or education in city planning, municipal finance, infrastructure maintenance, or anything else he talks about. He's just a guy, in love with a city, asking it to make better use of his tax dollars.