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JFAC shortens presentations, centralizes budget materials and adds new analysis visuals
Summary
Legislative staff outlined a retooled budget-hearing format featuring 90-minute, data-focused sessions, consolidated fund analysis, five-year trends, account-category breakdowns and centralized SharePoint materials.
Janet Jessup, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, briefed the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee on Jan. 7 on a retooled budget-hearing format intended to shorten in-room presentations while improving access to detailed budget materials online.
Jessup said the committee will move from longer, slide-heavy sessions to focused 90-minute morning hearings that emphasize maintenance budgets and current-year enhancements; agency materials and supporting documents are centralized in a SharePoint repository and the legislative budget book. The new slide set consistently includes an agency description and code references, an organizational chart with FTP (full-time personnel) counts, a consolidated fund…
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