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Washington County, Wisconsin (~137,000 people) · 2020s

Washington County, Wisconsin — a small county moves real money

What happened

County Executive Josh Schoemann led a priority-based budgeting process that reallocated 15% of the county's entire operating budget according to articulated priorities.

What the evidence shows

County-scale government — the same institutional form as your own — can restructure real money when priorities are made explicit and visible. Not a metropolis, not a pilot ward: a county.

What it teaches Palm Beach County

The quorum court is not too small to act on demonstrated priorities; small is where it's most possible. The missing ingredient is usually not authority but visible, credible priority signal — which is the product this platform ships.

The honest caveat

Led from the executive's office. The Clark version starts outside the courthouse, which is slower and sturdier.

Sources: Center for Priority Based Budgeting — county cases