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Budget Redirection in Georgia State Government
Author(s) -
Huckaby Henry M.,
Lauth Thomas P.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
public budgeting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1540-5850
pISSN - 0275-1100
DOI - 10.1046/j.0275-1100.1998.01148.x
Subject(s) - budget process , revenue , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , agency (philosophy) , government budget , fiscal year , operating budget , balanced budget , business , economics , politics , finance , public economics , public finance , macroeconomics , political science , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , epistemology , law
Budget redirection in Georgia state government represents a change from the expectation of continuous budget growth to an expectation that budget expansion will be accompanied by compensating budget reductions through an ongoing process of priority assessment. Its essential features are: the requirement that state agencies identify a minimum of 5 percent of their current year's budget which becomes the primary means for funding new programs and services in the coming fiscal year; and a limit, based upon revenue projections, on the amount an agency may request above the current year's budget. Like budget reforms in any era, it emanated from a combination of fiscal, managerial, and political objectives.