The Government Budgeting Working Group has worked on our Mission Statement and the description of the problems the group is trying to solve for. As a preliminary matter, the group has enlisted a volunteer to pull public records related to the process of government budgeting for animal services, starting with ten random jurisdictions to research. This data is related to overall spending on animal services, size of the populations served (both pets and people), demographics such as income level and population density in order to determine whether a larger survey is feasible or warranted. The goal is to determine whether there are any overall funding patterns which might provide some benchmarks for adequate funding levels.