Budget Process
The following characteristics are important for Maryland's operating budget process:
- Transparency: A budget Process that is clear and readily understood.
- Public Access: Opportunity for substantive public input during the entire budget process, including the formulation, enactment and implementation phases
- Reliable, current and objective information
- Accountability: A systematic review process of expenditures, programs and services to determine their impact, efficiency, and sustainability
- Sufficient time to deliberate
- Flexibility: The ability to adjust to changing needs
- Balance budget requirement