Appropriations committee reviews base-budget worksheets, prepares for Armstrong budget release

At a meeting of the Appropriations - Government Operations Division, committee staff briefed members on a new base-level worksheet and the materials members will use when the Armstrong executive budget is released.

The new “blue sheet” is a base-level worksheet that shows an agency’s ongoing appropriation, historical appropriations back roughly four bienniums and continuing appropriations, staff said. Committee staff said the current statewide base level of funding shown in committee materials is $9,869,000,000. The blue sheet lists agency-specific continuing appropriations and unique items; staff used the Office of Trust Lands as an example of an agency with multiple continuing appropriations and administrative fees collected from various funds.

Committee staff described the three colors of materials members will use this session: blue sheets (base-level worksheets), green sheets (the Burgum administration’s executive recommendation), and purple sheets (the Armstrong administration’s recommendation). Committee staff said the green sheets show Burgum’s proposed changes, including FTE adjustments and…