Agency budget paper
The budgeting process is often dependent on the agreed upon and documented guidelines of the individual agencies in the US. The common things the underlie all the budgeting process is that they are meant to facilitate operations of the agencies and also to better the service delivery to the citizens or dwellers within the jurisdiction of the agency.
The New York City Council
The NYC council budget covers the cost of ruining g the city, for instance the pay for the sanitation workers, power and lights at the common amenities like the libraries as well as providing social services. The budgeting process starts with the city’s 59 community boards conduct public hearing and after this hands in their capital priorities to the mayor. The mayor then presents the preliminary budget proposal, after which the city council holds hearings on the mayor’s preliminary budget proposal, giving recommendations for amendments after which adopts the budget (NYC Independent Budget Board, 2013).
This kind of budgeting process has the advantage that it is backed by the popular support of the people. In this effect the accountability lies with the people hence the leaders are seen as mere transit points. It covers the aspirations and the...
Such budgets touches directly the direst needs of the city dwellers and the stakeholders are always guided by the rules and regulations of the city council embedded in law. The challenge with such budgeting process is that it is time consuming and always runs into months to conclude.
The other agency is the National Science Foundation which as the name suggests is a national agency that has its activities spread across the nation on matters to do with science and research in science. The budgeting process for this big agency is basically divided into three blocks. The first block is considered the executive branch process where there is the formulation of the budget where the OMB gives the agency the guidelines of priority areas and makes the final decision on the proposed budget for the agency. After this the president’s proposed budget is presented to the congress. The second block of the process is considered legislative process where the house and senate develop their own budget resolutions to set the spending levels. The house and the senate then appropriates the budget, holds hearings on the same to examine the needs of the budget. The final block of the process is to finalize the spending levels. Here…
