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Analysts walk new JFAC members through Idaho’s budget 'decision unit' process and program‑maintenance benchmarks
Summary
Budget staff explained how the state builds appropriations in six benchmarks—from prior appropriation through executive adjustments and program maintenance to next year’s base—and how agencies and departments are presented in the budget book.
Jared Tetrault, deputy director and manager of budget and policy, presented an orientation to the legislative budget book and the “decision unit” approach the state uses to assemble appropriations.
Tetrault told the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee that Idaho builds agency budgets in programming “decision units” and six formal benchmarks, starting with the legislature’s prior‑session original appropriation and finishing with the next year’s original appropriation after program maintenance and enhancements are applied. He said the benchmarks help keep midyear adjustments,…
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