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Legislative Fiscal Division demos interactive budget, population and local‑government dashboards; explains 5% contingency plans
Summary
Legislative fiscal division staff showed interactive budget and forecasting tools, a local‑government accounting dashboard, a sales tax revenue model, and explained the statutory 5% contingency/agency plan submissions the subcommittee will review.
Nick Van Brown and Ethan Bergen of the Legislative Fiscal Division demonstrated multiple interactive tools the division maintains for legislators and staff and reviewed the statutory ‘‘5% plan’’ documents agencies submit for potential contingency reductions.
Van Brown described the interactive budget tool as ‘‘a digital version of the books that you have in front of you’’ that allows members to filter by fund source, program, ongoing vs. one‑time, and to compare versions (governor, subcommittee, near‑real‑time session versions). He showed how members can open program‑level views (base amounts and decision packages), filter for present law or new proposals and immediately see statewide or agency‑level impacts. He also demonstrated the tool’s version‑comparison…
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