City on the line : how Baltimore transformed its budget to beat the Great Recession and deliver outcomes / Andrew Kleine ; foreword by Peter Hutchinson.

Table of Content: Introduction: thinking outside the black box -- Outcome budgeting 101 -- Outcomes vs. the org chart -- Budget proposals that sing -- Making the magic happen -- Shifting the debate -- Widening the circle -- The new status quo? -- Outcomestat -- Pressing ahead -- The bottom line -- Are you ready? -- Appendix A: request for results : make Baltimore a cleaner, greener, and more -- Sustainable city -- Appendix B: excerpt from A Cleaner City Preliminary Turn the Curve Plan -- Appendix C: excerpt from Citizen's Guide to the Fiscal 2013 Budget -- Glossary -- Index -- About the author.