BUDGET TRANSPARENCY (CONTROL SECTION 4.11) - 6446

The 2015-16 budget package, abolished Government Code section 12439, which required positions that have been vacant for six consecutive months or more to be abolished unless departments could justify the extended vacancy. Additionally, Control Section 4.11 was revised to provide transparency for departments’ actual filled positions and the budgeting of personal services, staff benefits, and operating expenses and equipment. As such, the Budget Transparency display is included in the Governor’s Budget biennially (every other year). The intent is to identify the number of positions out of a department’s total authorized positions that are historically held vacant and reallocate funds associated with those vacancies to other expenditure categories where those funds are actually being expended. Finance issues instructions to departments on how to complete this evaluation.