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Budget staff outline decision-unit model and budget-book structure for JFAC review
Summary
Legislative staff walked members through how budgets are built in decision units: original appropriation, midyear adjustments, expenditure adjustments, base resets, program maintenance and enhancements. Staff pointed members to the budget book pages and decision-detail reports on SharePoint.
Deputy budget manager Jared Tetrault and Legislative Services Office staff briefed the committee on the state's budget structure and how agency requests, governor recommendations, and legislative decisions are organized in the budget book.
Tetrault described the decision-unit model used by analysts and the six benchmark steps that lead from the current session's original appropriation to the next year's base. Those steps are: (1) original appropriation, (2) reappropriations and supplemental adjustments, (3) expenditure adjustments…
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