Nevada state budget sandbox

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The fiscal year for the State of Nevada is determined by the Nevada State Legislature. The current 2009 fiscal year for the State of Nevada is from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009.[1] The Nevada state budget, according to during a press conference on January 16,


[edit] The 2009 Deficit

  • The funding allocated for the State of Nevada by the federal stimulus package will be used to balance both the fiscal year 2009 budget and the fiscal year 2010 budget.[2]


[edit] Charts on Spending

[edit] Budget figures, 2000-2009


John Chiang, State Comptroller speaks on
budget crisis

The following table provides a history for California's budgeted and actual expenditures from the General Fund.

Fiscal Year General Fund Budgeted General Fund Actual Change (%)
2000-2001 $78,815,938,057[3] $78,052,900,000[4] n/a
2001-2002 $78,763,416,398[5] $76,751,700,000[4] (2)%
2002-2003 $76,721,738,911[6] $77,482,100,000[4] 1%
2003-2004 $71,136,964,450[7] $78,345,200,000[4] 1%
2004-2005 $78,681,001,033[8] $79,804,000,000[4] 2%
2005-2006 $90,025,959,859[9] $91,591,500,000[4] 15%
2006-2007 $101,260,997,500[10] $101,413,000,000[4] 11%
2007-2008 $102,258,193,000[11] n/a* n/a
2008-2009 $103,400,760,000[12] n/a* n/a

*Actual expenditure data is not yet available for Fiscal Years 2007 and 2008.

[edit] Causes of Budget Problems

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[edit] Proposed Solutions

[edit] Republicans

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[edit] Democrats

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[edit] Rainy Day Fund

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[edit] Federal Stimulus Package for Utah

  • The State of Nevada submitted 163 projects [13] in the amount of $1,521,987,313 [14] for the cities of Henderson, Las Vegas, Mesquite, Reno and Sparks.
  • The State of Utah has 298 statewide projects[15] totaling $1,698,190,678 in requests from the federal stimulus package for the following cities in Utah: Brigham City, Herriman, Holladay, Murray, Orem, Provo, Salem, Salt Lake City, Sandy City, Taylorsville, and West Jordan.[16]

[edit] Transparency evaluations

The following table is helpful in evaluating the level of transparency provided by a state spending and transparency database; Utah has no such database but this chart can be helpful in providing guidelines for what to include in such a database, should the state legislature agree to create one.

Criteria for evaluating spending databases
State DatabaseSearchabilityGrantsContractsLine Item ExpendituresDept/Agency BudgetsPublic Employee SalaryExemption Level
Nonen/an/an/an/an/an/an/a

[edit] External links

[edit] Budget links

[edit] References

  1. ↑ UTAH GOV, "DEQ Fee Schedules by Fiscal Year", July 2007
  2. ↑ Deseret News, "Utah's Budget to get a bailout", February 18, 2009
  3. ↑ 2000-2001 Final Budget Summary
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Historical Data; Actual Budget Expenditures
  5. ↑ 2001-2002 Final Budget Summary
  6. ↑ 2002-2003 Final Budget Summary
  7. ↑ 2003-2004 Final Budget Summary
  8. ↑ 2004-2005 Final Budget Summary
  9. ↑ 2005-2006 Final Budget Summary
  10. ↑ 2006-2007 Final Budget Summary
  11. ↑ 2007-2008 Final Budget Summary
  12. ↑ 2008-2009 Final Budget Summary
  13. ↑ Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending, "Find Projects by State or Territory", 2009
  14. ↑ Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending, "Projects in Nevada", 2009
  15. ↑ Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending, "Find projects by state or territory", 2009
  16. ↑ Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending, "Projects in Utah", 2009

[edit] Additional reading

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