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Staff outlines program-maintenance process; sales tax distributions highlighted as shrinking share for general fund
Summary
Budget staff walked JFAC members through the program maintenance bills, decision units and sales tax distribution formula, warning that statutory earmarks have reduced the share of sales tax flowing to the general fund and could constrain options in a downturn.
Budget staff and committee members discussed the structure and timing of program maintenance bills, the decision units that compose them, and how statutory sales tax distributions reduce the portion of sales tax available to the general fund.
Keith Bybee, Division Manager of Budget Policy Analysis, explained why program maintenance appropriations are organized into 10 functional areas (for example, separate appropriations for public school support and state Board of Education agencies) and what is included in program maintenance: the fiscal “building blocks” between the base budget and maintenance benchmark (personnel benefit cost adjustments including CEC items, contract inflation, statewide cost allocation and the CEC adjustments themselves). He said the goal is to include CEC items in program maintenance this year to standardize decision-making.
Bybee noted that program maintenance is distinct from…
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