Budget Redirection in Georgia State Government |
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| Authors: | Henry M. Huckaby Thomas P. Lauth |
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| Affiliation: | Director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia.;Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, The University of Georgia. E-mail address: |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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