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Subcommittee watches New Mexico video on performance-based budgeting; chair urges Montana study
Summary
The Section A Subcommittee viewed a video from New Mexico showing how that state uses program evaluation and performance reporting to shape budgets. Chair Falk said the presentation offers a model for deeper budget oversight and highlighted examples where evaluation changed spending decisions.
Members of the Section A Subcommittee of the 2025 Montana Legislature opened the meeting with a brief video and discussion about performance-based budgeting drawn from New Mexico’s Legislative Finance Committee.
Chair Debra Falk said she asked that the video be shown because it ‘‘was super informative’’ and that she had selected a roughly 16-minute excerpt for the committee. The recording, she said, originally aired in a Legislative Finance Committee meeting and included a presentation and an extended question-and-answer session.
The video presenter, identified in the transcript only as the Presenter (New Mexico legislative staff, video), described how New Mexico organized program evaluation inside its legislative fiscal office and tied…
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