Working closely with the City of Oakland staff, the Blue Sky Consulting Group developed a 5 year forecast for the City’s economy and accompanying expenditures and revenues. These projections formed the foundation for development of the City’s two year budget. 

The "great recession" has caused governments at all levels to reevaluate their budgets in an effort to do more with less. In 2010, the City and County of San Francisco sought help in evaluating a series of changes to the city's business tax system. We aided the city in evaluating both the fiscal and economic effects of proposed changes to the city's business tax. Our analysis helped point the way toward a tax system that could raise additional revenue with a minimal impact on the city's economy.

Tribal Casinos have the potential to increase local economic activity, but they can also increase costs for local governments. We have analyzed the fiscal and economic effects of several casino  projects. By employing a custom fiscal and economic impact model that we developed, we were able to provide strategic advice to our local government clients as they negotiated financial agreements with casino developers.

The Blue Sky Consulting Group analyzed the revenue impact of split roll property tax proposals for the California Tax Reform Association. To do so, we developed a simulation model to estimate the impact of these proposals - on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis - under a variety of scenarios and assumptions. The analysis required the construction of a property database with more than 5 million records.