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ACTION! -- Agency Operations are Funded
What Happens and Why
 | Money is available after allocations are made. Operating managers
make decisions about what to procure and what work to do. This is the end of the
process for determining funds availability and what the funds will be used for.
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| Next steps are to spend the money. Goods and services are procured
and delivered, programs are implemented, work is accomplished, and government actions that
directly affect people take place.
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| People are needed to do the work, so opportunities arise for
employment or other delivery of services. The level of these activities is
dictated by the numbers of the approved budgets or operating plans of the agency.
Access to some of the numbers in the budget is available through LINKS
to some agencies.
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Agency and Operating Component Actions
They use funds and spend. Funds control responsibilities and
activities are implemented. The core element of budget execution comes into play. Operating managers spend most
of the time that they dedicate to the budget process on budget execution.
Timing
During the fiscal year, with increasing activity towards the spring and
summer.
Documents and Links
| Documentation of actual decisions on what to spend money is available in
many formal procurement documents, such as RFPs,
and personnel recruitment actions. Many of these documents and
information related to them are available at web sites, both governmental and
private. However, this information is only related to the documentation
of decisions already made.
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