This slide dramatizes the BROC Research approach. We have realized the crucial necessity of translating the traditional administrative version of the state budget into a version that better lends itself to legislative oversight. Please realize that we are not saying agencies themselves are irrelevant. In no way are we saying that when we are concerned about administration. Administration is an executive branch function.
Legislative oversight needs to know about outcomes and impacts on people.
Therefore, we have sorted state programs by target groups in the population. The result may be represented in the accompanying graphic. In the outer ring we place programs that are linked by the commonality that their primary reason for existing is to serve the same population group. The inner circle is our current designation of those population groups. It is certainly subject to revision.