THE TRADITIONAL BUDGET - 6210

Over time, the state budget format has evolved from the traditional format based on department functions to incorporate elements of the program budget concept. Before the adoption of the program budget concept, “traditional” budgets were oriented to show expenditures according to a department’s organizational structure. Departments were generally organized by function so the line-item objects in their budgets were directly related to those various departmental functions. The last exclusively traditional budget was in 1969–70.