Suggestions for addressing projected budget shortfalls through cost controls, restructuring services, and increasing revenues.

Describes Worcester's cost reductions and municipal service improvements, and offers suggestions for additional improvements.

Worcester faces numerous financial challenges in its FY05 budget and beyond.

Possible privatization of Hope Cemetery or its operations is examined.

This report examines the potential costs and benefits of a Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) program in Worcester.

Examines how Worcester closed its $20+ million dollar budget gap and compares those decisions with earlier Research Bureau recommendations.

Discusses Worcester's FY04 budget and proposes several options for reducing expenditures, including restructuring municipal employee health insurance and pension benefits, restructuring other public safety benefits, and reorganizing public safety departments.

In order to address Worcester's FY03 anticipated budget shortfall, cost reductions and fundamental changes in the delivery of municipal services are explored.

In its yearly analysis of the City's revenue and expenditure projections, the Research Bureau makes a number of recommendations to reduce expenditures and increase revenues.

Changes are needed to the FY01 budget in order to avoid higher taxes.