Table 13.3 presents the fiscal year 2002 outcome budgets for two programs (child abuse prevention and intervention, and child protection and permanency) operated by the Florida Department of Children and Families.
Perhaps the most notable feature of Table 13.3 is the pronounced emphasis on outcomes. Of the twelve performance measures identified for the two programs, ten are outcomes.
The fiscal year 2002 data identified in Table 13.3 constitute an itemized inst of outcomes the two programs propose to achieve in return for their legislative appropriation.
After baselines have been established for each of the outcome performance measures and after the data have been evaluated for reliability, the two programs can move to the purchase approach to outcome budgeting by petitioning the state legislature for a lump sum appropriation.
The operation of these two programs under the provisions of Florida's PB2 lump sum appropriation will represent an example of the desired end stage of outcome budgeting: user friendly budgets that are transparent and communicate with stakeholders and that focus on the outcomes of government programs and their attendant costs.