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Review the City of Kelsey under the Government tab of the Virtual
Organization site. Access the public records of Kelsey in the City
Government section to familiarize yourself with the city’s budget and
financial report.
You work as a budget director for the mayor of Kelsey, and recently
you have received several complaints from citizens about the need to
expand streets and highways. The population of Kelsey has grown,
creating more traffic and more car accidents.
The mayor has communicated to you that this past year has seen the
highest number of traffic accidents in the city. The federal
government has reduced the federal pass-through money for the state,
and the budgeting group must restructure the budget for the coming
year. In addition to the limited budget, there has been a recent
budgetary reform at the federal level, which has put additional
pressure on the state Department of Transportation (DOT) to use the
federal money before it expires. The state transportation committees
are lobbying the state for an additional 15-cent gas tax for a