20 AAC 40.010. Development of mental health budget recommendations to board

(a) The board will use a two-year budget cycle for the authority's budget recommendations under AS 47.30.046 . The first year of such budget cycle is the state's fiscal year that ends in an even-numbered year.

(b) Early in the calendar year in which a new two-year budget cycle begins, the authority will invite each planning board and such other agencies that serve the needs of beneficiaries as the authority considers appropriate to collaborate with the authority in developing budget recommendations to the board to meet the mental health needs of the state for the upcoming budget cycle. Recommendations will be developed for meeting both operating and capital needs to be paid, subject to appropriations, for the following:

(1) base adjustments to the state's general fund appropriations for the comprehensive program between

(A) the various appropriations authorized in the mental health budget appropriation bill; and

(B) the legislature's general fund appropriations that affect beneficiaries, but are not included in the mental health budget appropriation bill;

(2) other changes to the mental health budget appropriation bill, including expenditures from the mental health trust settlement income account.

(c) In developing budget recommendations to the board under (b) of this subsection, the participants in the collaboration process will

(1) review the mental health service system and the sources and amounts that are available to support that system; and

(2) recommend areas of beneficiary service or need upon which mental health efforts in the state should be focused.

(d) The participants in the collaboration process may break their efforts into smaller or multiple collaboration groups, as appropriate, to develop budget recommendations for the individual focus areas identified under (c)(2) of this section.

(e) Early in the calendar year before the second year of a budget cycle begins, the authority will again invite the planning boards and such other agencies that serve the needs of beneficiaries as the authority considers appropriate to meet with the authority and evaluate whether and how the authority's budget recommendations for that second year should be changed.

History: Eff. 10/24/2004, Register 172

Authority: AS 47.30.031

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