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Agency narratives are prepared as part of the biennial budget process – there are three sets of narratives: agency profiles, program activity narratives, and budget activity narratives. Depending on how the agency structures its budget presentation, the following documents may appear:
- only an agency profile, or
- an agency profile and program narratives, or
- an agency profile, a brief program summary - serving as a short presentation of the programs to which the budget activities link, and budget activity narratives.
Each agency’s profile - also posted separately without fiscal information - are brief overviews of an agency's business, outlining the agency's purpose and core functions, and basic information about the agency's operations and budget.
Each agency’s reports begin with the agency profile, followed by the agency fiscal overview, and then the change summary, a fiscal report summarizing the base changes and the Governor’s recommended changes (change items). The change summary is sorted by fund. Detailed change item narratives follow this report. Agency-wide change items appear first, and then change items corresponding to programs and budget activities. Each set of change item narratives are generally sorted in an order selected by the agency.
Following the change item narratives, program and budget activity narratives provide more detailed information about the kinds of services that are provided by the agency, the population served and key goals and measures for those services.
Fiscal reports are included at agency, program and activity levels that summarize appropriations, expenditures, and full time equivalents (FTE) for fiscal years 2010-11 and the 2012-13 Governor's budget recommendation. The appendix section may include an agency revenue summary, a federal funds summary and a grants summary as applicable to each agency. |
