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QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES LOUSdna star budget 1. Look at the budget preparation instructions issued by a state budget agency on the state's website. What is the timetable for submission, what is the basic format for preparation of the submission, and are certain displays explicitly requirede Do the instructions give suggestions about important areas that the governor wants to emphasize or indications about limits to increases in funding? 2. Identify these key elements of your state budget process: a. Does your state have an annual or a biennial budget? Does it appear to have a separate budget for acquisition of capital assets (buildings, roads, bridges, etc.) b. What units direct the preparation of the executive budget? (Not all states have an executive budget.) c. How many appropriation bills are usually passed? d. How much object-of-expenditure detail appears in these bills? e. Whatitem-veto power, if any, does the governor have? Can the governor change the amounts in appropriation bills or is the veto limited to total amounts? E. Is the budget process described on a state website? Does the website have the budget instruction issued to state agencies? When longer-term fiscal framework budget numbers are provided, one never knows how serious the t was that went into them. Because no legislative action is associated with the future years, they may be simple projections of the recent past and provide little to no useful information for the decision process. Requiring additional years in the process does not guarantee anything particulartly useful g. Is the state budget easily accessible on the state website? h. Does the website provide information on the agency requests, in addition to the executive proposal and adopted appropriations? The National Association of State Budget Officers provides much of this infor- mation in its publication Budget Processes in the States, which may be accessed at its website [http://www.nasbo.org. 3. Go to the website of a city or county of your choosing and look for documents relating to that unit's budget and finances. Look for the following: a. Find the chief executive's budget message. What is the tone of that message What are the major priorities? b. Find the budget timetable and budget instructions if they are available on the website. he budget presentation, including any agency narrative and the budget data. Look for budget year, progress year, and report year. Are any out-years provided? Does the budget give other information (e.g., agency request ver- endation) Does the presentation for each agency explain cy, what the agency does, does it provide an organization chart for the agen and does it explain what its primary objectives for the budget year are What is the distribution of revenue by source and of expenditure by agency and function? d. Does the budget give you enough information to allow you to understand what the tasks of the agencies are? e. What is your overall evaluation of the budget presentation Does it meet your transparency standard? What information did you not find that you would have found useful