Coherent decision-making inside for deliberate results outside. || Governments have four functions: tax, spend, regulate, inform. Municipalities cover spend in service provision and inform through various public interfaces. We support the other two, tax, or revenue, and regulation, policy, with research and analysis so coherent decision-making inside government results in deliberate outcomes outside of it, Around the world, government power is decentralizing. Are Canadian municipalities structured to take up the challenge? What we do: Translate municipal priorities into followable financial policies and new streams of revenue. Services: -- Financial Policy Assessment -- New Policy Development -- 'Money Now' (non-tax revenue measures as budget options) -- Revenue Review Why we do it: 1. Governments have four powers to steer society: Tax, spend, inform and regulate. Municipalities tend to focus on two, service provision (spend) and, to a lesser extent, informing, so we focus on the other two, regulation (policy-making) and taxation (revenue generation). 2. Impact is about more than how much cash is in the bank. By focusing on financial policy and non-tax revenue, we highlight opportunities to impact communities that don’t depend on how rich a municipality’s assessment base is, or its account balances, but on its Council’s willingness to plan by committing to policy and lead change with proposals to increase revenue.