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JOINT RESOLUTIONS

amount appropriated for fiscal year 1979;

(2) Increased by approximately 5 percent of the
amount appropriated for fiscal year 1979.

The submissions should represent Department or
Agency-wide priorities, indicating which specific programs
or elements are least or most effective, as the case may be,
and should avoid simplistic across-the-board cuts, function
transfers, and other responses which avoid discussion of the
merits of particular agency activities. Submissions may
recommend that particular activities be phased out, or in,
over a longer period of time than one fiscal year. And be
it further

RESOLVED, That each agency is further requested to
submit at the time that agency budget requests are submitted
to the Department of Budget and Fiscal Services Planning a
concise statistical summary of each program recommended for
deletion or addition, including where appropriate the
following factors:

(1) Measures of program output and cost such
as:

(i) number of persons served or units
produced;

(ii) cost per person or cost per unit; and

(iii) comparison of effort, costs, and
results with similar programs in other jurisdictions and in
the private sector. The Department of Budget and Fiscal
Planning may supervise the preparation of these statistical
summaries and waive or augment the elements of data to be
included, as it deems best, to minimize the cost and the
amount of paperwork, and to maximize the usefulness, of the
submissions; and be it further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be sent to the
Honorable Blair Lee III, Acting Governor of the State of
Maryland; the Honorable Thomas W. Schmidt, Secretary of
Budget and Fiscal Planning, State Treasury Building, Fourth
Floor, 5 Calvert Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21404; and
Michael I. Volk, 90 State Circle, Room 113, Annapolis,
Maryland 21401.

*Not signed by the Acting Governor.

No. 62*

(House Joint Resolution 115)