Provides cities and counties with policy options and directives for reducing their nontax administration operating costs.

Authorizes cities and counties to impose additional sales and use taxes.

Provides counties with a utility tax option to help diversify revenue options in order to provide necessary and required services.

Addresses payment options to cities and code cities.

Requires statewide organizations representing local public health officials, counties, and cities to convene a work group to develop recommendations to the legislature on preferred funding and service delivery methods that will ensure the presence of a cost-effective, nimble, responsive, and sustainable public health system. Expires June 30, 2013.

Provides for reimbursement from city, county, and municipal agencies to the criminal justice training commission for costs of training personnel of the agencies.

Requires the bureau of forensic laboratory services to establish and charge a fee for services provided to local governments.

Creates the local government contingency account.

Changes distributions to and/or functions of the county criminal justice assistance account, the municipal criminal justice assistance account, the liquor excise tax fund, the liquor revolving fund, the county research services account, the city and town research services account, the city or town trial court improvement account, the county trial court improvement account, and the city trial court improvement account.