Missouri
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
Budget, revenue, and demographic information; part of the Office of Administration.
Benefit contributions, budget summaries, charts, and budget priorities.
Umbrella office with budgeting, accounting, and other administrative divisions.
Appropriation summaries, financial summaries, and debt reports.
Transparency site with information on expenditures, tax credits, bonds, employee compensation, grants, contracts, and vendors.
Financial audits of the state, local governments, and school districts, as well as other fiscal, accountability, and performance reports.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Focus is on individual public policy areas such as education and social services, with some attention to funding issues.
Research on budget, tax, and economic issues, with a focus on “quality of life for all Missourians”; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Policy oriented, with some coverage of budget and fiscal issues; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Tax oriented; Associated Industries of Missouri is the parent organization.
Legislative Offices
Budget markup sheets, live video feeds of budget hearings, and some descriptions of the budget process.