It’s taken some time for me, as a transplant, to wrap my head around the state budget process.
I understand budgets; i manage a household one, in the past I’ve managed one for a co-ownership apartment building and I currently manage one for a non-profit. However, my higher governance level understanding of budgets is within the Canadian provincial and federal contexts, not the United States. If you are as befuddled as I, you’ll find Arise Alabama‘s booklet describing the process and the effects on policy quite useful.