Alabama moving toward zero-based budgeting, requiring agencies to justify spending

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Alabama moving toward zero-based budgeting, requiring agencies to justify spending

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama House and Senate budget chairmen signaled Monday they are preparing to move the state toward zero-based budgeting, which would ratchet up scrutiny on state agencies and require them justify their budget requests each year.

To this point, the State of Alabama, similar to the federal government, has used a form of “baseline budgeting.” This means that an agency’s budget appropriation for this year serves as the “baseline” — or starting point — for its appropriation next year, and it goes up from there. Zero-based budgeting, a frequent rallying cry for conservatives on both the state and federal levels, means agencies will start their budgets at $0, thereby forcing them to justify each dollar of their funding requests year after year.

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[Proud Tiger 4,261]

That is a very good move if they really do it right.

[kd4au 1,145]

All for that.Hope they follow through with it.Feds need to do the same.

[cooltigger21 0]

Now if we could just do that in Washington DC.

[JoeBags7277 734]

Good move. Not sure why we ever got away from it.