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Legislative staff demo Idaho Base Analysis Tool to give lawmakers searchable view of agency base budgets
Summary
Legislative staff demonstrated a new online tool (Idaho Base Analysis Tool) that pulls 25 years of appropriations and agency narratives into an interactive interface to help lawmakers trace how base budgets were built and why, with plans to roll out agency data this fall.
Paul Headley of the Legislative Services Office and Casey Hartwig demonstrated the Idaho Base Analysis Tool (referred to in the briefing as IVAT), an interactive dashboard that assembles historical appropriations, base builder details, and narrative from fiscal reports to make base budgets searchable and transparent.
Headley told the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee that roughly 90 percent of statewide appropriations sit in…
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