§37-64  Governing principles.  Thesystem shall be governed by the following general principles:

(1)  Planning, programming, budgeting, evaluation,appraisal and reporting shall be by programs or groups of programs.

(2)  The state program structure shall be such as willenable meaningful decisions to be made by the governor and the legislature atall levels of the structure.  At its lowest level, it shall display thoseprograms which are the simplest units of activities, about which resourceallocation decisions are to be made by the governor and the legislature.

(3)  A program which serves two or more objectivesshall be placed in the program structure along with that objective which itprimarily serves; where desirable, it shall also be placed with other objectives,but as a nonadd item.

(4)  The full cost, including research anddevelopment, capital and operating costs, shall be identified for all programsregardless of the means of financing; costs shall be displayed in the year oftheir anticipated expenditure, regardless of whether such costs have beenauthorized to be expended by prior appropriations acts or are authorized to beexpended by existing law or require new appropriations or authorizations.

(5)  Objectives shall be stated for every level of thestate program structure.

(6)  The effectiveness of programs in attainingobjectives shall be assessed.

(7)  Planning shall have a long-range view.

(8)  Systematic analysis in terms of problems,objectives, alternatives, costs, effectiveness, benefits, risks anduncertainties shall constitute the core of program planning. [L 1970, c 185,§4; am L 1974, c 219, §2]