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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
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WHEREAS, Budget cuts are extremely difficult to make
if they affect the job of a present State employee and no
prior planning has been done to determine whether his
security can be protected by transfer to another
position. Such planning is now becoming available within
the executive branch through the Consolidated Manpower
Program, developed in the Department of Transportation,
but is practically impossible for the General Assembly to
do on its own during the budget review process; and
WHEREAS, Almost any programatic cut is controversial
and likely to provoke opposition from affected persons,
and therefore requires careful preparation and
justification. The executive agencies, who are more
familiar with their own programs than anyone else, are in
the best position to propose cuts and increases and to
provide the detailed justification therefor; and
WHEREAS, The Volume of extra paperwork inherent in
such a process can be minimized if agencies are not asked
to "prioritize" and justify every activity every year,
but only to identify a limited increment of lowest and
highest priorities, and to justify those specific
changes; and
WHEREAS, Multiple-level budgeting has proven to be
of value to the General Assembly, and to the agency in
considering and understanding the activities and
priorities of the agency, and such a procedure has shown
it can be the basis for concrete action, both for
reductions and increases in expenditures, by a
legislative body in Arlington County, Virginia; and
WHEREAS, Statistical summaries of State programs
have proven to be of value in Hawaii, would facilitate
decision-making on budget reductions and increases, and
are not currently available in Maryland in a convenient,
comparative form; and
WHEREAS, These additional reporting requirements
should be coordinated with the existing requirement for
preparation of annual Executive Plans; now, therefore, be
it
RESOLVED, That the Governor is requested to submit
with the next budget bill, or within ten days of
submission thereof to the General Assembly at the same
time that agency budget requests are submitted to the
Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning, a detailed
list, with detailed justification and impact analysis,
from the demonstration department or each agency, of the
programs and positions which it would elect to eliminate,
reduce, increase, or add if its budget were:
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