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Committee staff outline streamlined budget hearings and SharePoint materials to speed review
Summary
Legislative staff described a condensed hearing format, standardized budget slides, and a SharePoint repository containing agency budget files, audits and follow-up documents to help JFAC members review budgets more efficiently.
Janet Jessup, a budget and policy analyst for the Legislative Services Office, walked the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee through the committee’s new, condensed budget‑hearing format and the online materials members can use during hearings.
Jessup said the committee reduced the daily hearing block from three hours to 90 minutes and standardized slides to include an agency description, organizational structure and full‑time personnel (FTP) counts, a consolidated fund analysis that lists dedicated funds, five‑year appropriation and expenditure trends, and a breakout of account-category spending (personnel costs, operating expenditures, trustee/benefit payments and…
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