|
Appropriations Summary |
Actual[104] |
Recommended |
Savings |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interdepartmental Grants: |
$43,317,000 |
$42,957,000 |
$360,000 |
|
Federal Funds: |
$65,625,100 |
$26,362,600 |
$39,262,500 |
|
State General Fund/General Purpose: |
$50,452,500 |
$20,996,050 |
$29,456,450 |
|
Special Revenue Funds: |
$69,365,900 |
$67,739,900 |
$1,626,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gross Appropriation: |
$228,760,500 |
$158,055,550 |
$70,704,950 |
The Michigan
Department of Management and Budget (MDMB) is perhaps the best example of a
state department that has grown to conduct programs well beyond its stated
purposes. While its primary function is to "provide financial recordkeeping,
systems development, property management, capital facility development,
procurement, retirement, and office support services to state agencies" and to
prepare, present, and execute "the state budget on behalf of the governor," it
actually performs programs that bear absolutely no relation to the purposes just
described.[105] Examples include: the Office of Services to the Aging, the
Office of Drug Control Policy, and the Professional Development Fund. The state
should act swiftly to correct this; it should, by beginning the process of
eliminating programs not vital to the stated purposes of the department, return
the MDMB to its original stature: an interdepartmental service and management
agency.