Maine
State Budget Sources
State Budget Sources: An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses is a resource published by the Volcker Alliance designed to help public officials, policy advocates, journalists, academics, and concerned citizens fully understand the critical fiscal decisions that governors and legislators must make. The guide includes the links below to budgets for this state as well as legislative analyses of budget bills and treasurers’ or comptrollers’ monthly state cash-flow statements; capital spending plans; reports on public-worker pension funding and returns; and reports by local and national fiscal research organizations, bond rating firms, and associations of state fiscal and finance officials.
Executive and Other Constitutional Finance Offices
Coordinating department for a variety of financial, technology, and other administrative services; primary fiscal adviser to the governor, with budget, revenue, and controller functions.
Compilation of annual reports from Maine agencies.
Focused on long-term state economic goals, economic and demographic information, and consensus revenue estimating.
Cash, investment, and debt management, as well as other financial services.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Analyses of budgets and taxation, with a focus on low- and moderate-income people; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Concentrates primarily on policy, with some attention to fiscal and budget issues; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Legislative Offices
Analysis of budget, finances, and state government operations for legislators, with staff assistance to a variety of legislative committees; part of the Legislative Council.
Budget, tax, and debt, as well as pension and retiree health liabilities.
Periodic fiscal news, budget process, and Revenue Forecasting Committee information.
Timely, date-ordered guide to legislative publications, often on fiscal matters.
Generally focused on program evaluation and analysis rather than fiscal issues, but sometimes tackles topics related to state funding. Its current work includes several reports on tax expenditures.