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Legislative staff streamline budget hearings, post materials to SharePoint and add consolidated fund analysis
Summary
Janet Jessup and Legislative Services staff described a condensed budget-hearing format, new consolidated fund-analysis tables, and SharePoint tools intended to give lawmakers quicker access to agency documents, fund balances and vacancy data as the committee reviews agency budgets.
Janet Jessup, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, briefed the Joint Finance and Appropriation Committee on Jan. 7 on a restructured budget-hearing format and the legislative budget materials available on SharePoint, highlighting a new consolidated-fund analysis and standardized slides intended to help members assess agencies more quickly.
Jessup said the committee's mornings will be shorter and more focused on the items that matter for appropriation: maintenance budgets, requested enhancements and major supplemental requests. Each agency presentation will include the agency description, organizational structure with full-time position counts and vacancies, a…
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