Guam § 4106 - Agency Program and Financial Plans.

§ 4106. Agency Program and Financial Plans.

(a) Each department or agency of the Government (other than the

Legislature and the courts), on the date and in the form and content

prescribed by the Bureau of Budget and Management Research shall

prepare and forward to the Bureau of Budget and Management Research

the following program and financial information:

(1) The goals and objectives of the agency programs, together

with proposed supplements, deletions and revisions.

(2) Its proposed plans to implement the goals and objectives

including estimates of future service needs, planned methods of

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administration, proposed modification of existing program services

and establishment of new program services, and the estimated

resources needed to carry out the proposed plan.

(3) The budget requested to carry out its proposed plans in the

succeeding fiscal year. The budget request information shall include

the expenditures during the last fiscal year, those estimated for the

current fiscal year, those proposal for the succeeding fiscal year, and

explanation of the services to be provided, the need for the services,

the costs of the services and any other information requested by the

Bureau of Budget and Management Research.

(4) A report of the receipts during the last fiscal year, an

estimate of the receipts during the current fiscal year, and an

estimate for the succeeding fiscal year.

(5) A statement of legislation required to implement the

proposed programs and financial plans.

(6) An evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of

specific alternatives to existing or proposed programs, policies or

administrative methods.

(b) The territorial agency proposals prepared under Subsection (a)

shall describe the relationships of their program services to those of other

territorial agencies, of other governments and of nongovernmental

bodies.

(c) The Bureau of Budget and Management Research shall assist

agencies in the preparation of their proposals under Subsection (a). This

assistance may include technical assistance; organization of materials;

centrally collected accounting, budgeting and personnel information;

standards and guidelines formulations; population and other required

data; and any other assistance that will help the territorial agencies

produce the information necessary for efficient agency management and

effective decision-making by the Governor and the Legislature.

(d) If any territorial agency fails to transmit the program and

financial information provided under Subsection (a) on the specified

date, the Bureau of Budget and Management Research may prepare such

information.

(e) The Bureau of Budget and Management Research shall compile

and submit to the Governor-elect in any year when a new Governor has

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been elected, not later than November 20, a summary of the program and

financial information prepared by territorial agencies.

(f) Each territorial agency shall send a representative or

representatives to the legislative hearing or hearings dealing with that

part of the Executive Budget dealing with such agency. At least four

days prior to such hearing, each agency shall submit to the Chairman of

the Committee on Ways & Means a statement indicating the priority of

each program contemplated within the proposed budget which will be the

subject of such hearing or hearings. Such prioritization shall be set out in

such a manner that the Legislature may decide, from necessity or

objective determination of the inappropriateness of any program to

eliminate or reduce the portion of the proposed budget related to that

program.