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Fiscal Affairs Program

Governing for Results

Georgia

Links active as of August 17, 2000

Overview: The "Budget Accountability and Planning Act of 1993" requires strategic planning, program evaluation, continuation budget reports, outcome (results) based budgeting and various cost savings measures. The legislation also established the legislative Budgetary Responsibility Oversight Committee (BROC) to work with the governor on the development of the strategic planning process and to carry out various performance review and evaluation responsibilities. Georgia requires state agencies' budget requests to include statements of agency purpose, goals, quantifiable desired results, and baseline data.

Statutory Requirements:

The relevant legislation is available at Ga. Code Ann. §45-12-175 & 177: http://www.ganet.org/cgi-bin/pub/ocode/ocgsearch?docname=OCode/G/45/12/178

Agencies And Programs:

Office of Planning and Budget (OPB): OPB provides information about the state strategic planning process and the performance review process, including a link to guidelines for strategic planning (at the bottom of the page):

http://www.opb.state.ga.us/op10000.htm

The general OPB site is: http://www.opb.state.ga.us/index.htm

Budgetary Responsibility Oversight Committee of the Georgia General Assembly:

Among BROC's duties is consultation with the Governor and the Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) on the development and implementation of the strategic planning process, the development of outcome measures for program evaluation, and the implementation of related actions. Committee members review and evaluate strategic plans submitted by OPB, program evaluation reports, information on new programs, information on reports submitted to OPB identifying dollars received or expended where not contemplated by the Appropriations Act, and other information and reports. http://www2.state.ga.us/BROC/

The 1999 Annual Report of the Budgetary Responsibility Oversight Committee provides a useful summary of its organization and purposes as well as its activities in recent years.
http://www2.state.ga.us/broc/adobe/1999ARPT.pdf

Legislative Budget Office: http://www2.state.ga.us/Legis/budget/index.htm

Manuals/Instructions:

Information on strategic management and evaluation:
http://www.opb.state.ga.us/op10000.htm

Results-based budgeting: Description of the budget process and agency instructions:
http://www.opb.state.ga.us/op02000.htm.

Georgia also continues to use zero-base budgeting as the foundation of its budget process. Instructions to agencies on the preparation of zero-base budgets for FY 2002 are found at:
http://www.opb.state.ga.us/rbbguide.htm#Guidelines%20for%20Completing%20the%202003%20Results-Based%20Budget

Strategic Plans:

The state strategic plan is developed by the Governor's Office and the Office of Planning and Budget with input from the legislative Budgetary Responsibility Oversight Committee. The current plan (dated 1998 in its last paragraph) is available at this site:
http://www.opb.state.ga.us/(2)ssp.htm

Peformance Measures:

Updated December 2002, reviewed December 2003.
Email statebudget-info@ncsl.org for more information.
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