The problem of budgets and their passage is as old as the democratic process. The fiery Thomas Paine even warned about it, sternly reminding our Founding Fathers that good budgets are the very substance of good government, since all citizens contribute to the taxes that enable the governors to spend. In other words, it's the people's money, and it's hard earned. Be careful how much you spend and on what you spend it. Second, government managers tend to maintain their departments at peak-demand level.
Government is like a public utility.
A utility will keep a capital plant large enough to sustain maximum demand. So, if electrical usage peaks for two months in the summer, the electric company will have some generators idle 10 months of the year. Government departments show the same phenomenon. Sometimes there is nothing to do about it and sometimes there everything to be done. Watch out for managers who call for money to sustain extreme emergency levels.