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Fiscal Affairs Program

Governing for Results

Montana

Overview: The 1999 General Appropriations Act required each department, the Montana University system, and when appropriate, each division of each department, to place its specific and measurable goals, benchmarks, and objectives for each year of the 2001 biennium on their respective internet web sites or the state's internet web site. Beginning July 1, 1999, and each six months thereafter, each department and the university system was instructed to report progress at meeting the goals, benchmarks, and objectives, and what changes, if any, were made to ensure that those goals, benchmarks, and objectives were attained.

The legislature, perhaps uniquely among the legislatures, has published a mission statement, goals and objectives for itself in keeping with its requirement for state agencies. http://leg.state.mt.us/LBMGO01.pdf

Statutory Requirements

Section 8 of HB 2 of the 1999 Legislative Session: http://161.7.127.14/bills/billhtml/HB0002.PDF

Agencies/Programs

• Governor's Office of Budget and Planning
  http://www2.state.mt.us/budget/
• Legislative Fiscal Division
  http://leg.state.mt.us/fiscal/index.htm
• Legislative Fiscal Report, 2001 Biennium
  http://leg.state.mt.us/reports/fiscal/fr2001/lfd_fr2001.htm

Performance Measures:

Mission statements and performance measures can be found by going to indicated sections for individual agencies in the budget recommendations for the 1999-2001 biennial budget:
http://www2.state.mt.us/budget/2001_Budget/Index.htm

Links to agency goals and objectives:
http://www2.state.mt.us/budget/goals_and _objectives/index.htm

Legislative branch mission, goals and objectives:
http://leg.state.mt.us/LBMGO01.pdf

Posted 16 October 2000

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