New FTE requests - Please give careful consideration to new requests for FTE to determine whether additional staff are necessary, or if the services proposed can be delivered through other means. We will also thoroughly discuss new requests for FTE during our budget meetings in the fall. Each year changes are proposed and made in the way funds are appropriated for the operation of state government. These changes may reflect transfers of programs between divisions or even departments of state government. One-time appropriations should be worked out with your assigned budget analyst.
Agencies request core reductions as program needs decline.
For some departments these types of changes are difficult to track. A department-wide core reconciliation should also be provided. The goal of the pool is to provide an incentive for agencies to invest in technology or other improvements that will decrease the size of state government. Agency proposals should identify the tradeoff of FTE, dollars, and fund by budgeting unit for the one-time investment. Priority will be given to decision items that result in decreases in staffing in the coming fiscal year, followed by those resulting in decreases in some future year.