Greater investment in education, initiatives to decrease unemployment and affordable housing are the issues Tauranga leaders hope will be addressed in today's Budget announcement.
Priority One chief executive Andrew Coker said the Budget could revitalise the city's workforce if money was invested in the right places.
"As a city and region, we face a looming economic crisis of an ageing workforce further complicated by the loss of our young people to training, education and jobs out of the region," Mr Coker said.
"I firmly believe that any support and investment by central government here in vocational to post-graduate education will have a direct pay-off in attracting an in-flow of young people here which will assist to address our demographic imbalance and substantially lift workforce productivity."