2013-15 Proposed Budget Visualizations
The Office of Financial Management's interactive budget data visualizations offer an opportunity to explore the Governor's Proposed 2013-15 Budget in a new, more visual way to enhance people's understanding of Washington state's budget and how it continues to be impacted by our fiscal challenges.
Explore the Governor's Proposed 2013-15 Budget
In many cases program increases are the result of caseload or enrollment changes and not policy decisions. It's also important to note that increases or reductions in certain areas may be the result of that program being shifted to a different fund source or to a new agency.
- 2013-15 Budget Proposal Visualization: General Fund-State, Education Legacy and Opportunity Pathways
- 2013-15 Budget Proposal Visualization: All Funds
How to best view budget visualizations
- As with most new technologies, the budget visualizations are NOT compatible with all Internet browsers. The visualizations are BEST viewed in Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome, and FireFox. The visualizations will work in other browsers, but some elements like pop-up boxes and styling (like bold) will work differently.
- The rectangles are sized according to the proposed spending and the color shows the severity of the cut or increase from 2011-13 Enacted Budget (green indicates an increase and red indicates a cut).
What information is in the visualizations
- The budget visualizations provide a data comparison between the Governor's Proposed 2013-15 Budget and Enacted 2011-13 Budget.
- Some state agencies and programs do not receive funding from the General Fund-State. As a result, they will not appear in the 2013-15 Budget Proposal Visualization: General Fund-State, Education Legacy and Opportunity Pathways. See a list of agencies not included in this visualization.
- Our budget is composed of three parts: Operating (for day-to-day operations of the state, including education, health care and public safety), Transportation (for maintaining, operating and building our roads, highways, rails, bridges, ferries and other modes of transportation) and Capital (for construction and maintenance of state buildings, schools and colleges, and purchase of public lands, parks and other property).
- The 2013-15 Budget Proposal Visualization: General Fund-State, Education Legacy and Opportunity Pathways includes funding from General Fund-State, Education Legacy Trust and Opportunity Pathways Accounts and displays the Operating budget.
- The 2013-15 Budget Proposal Visualization: All Funds is a funding visualization that includes all agencies and shows the Operating and Transportation budgets..
Related resources
If you require the data in an alternate, accessible format, use the links below.
- 2013-15 Budget Proposal Visualization: General Fund-State, Education Legacy Trust and Opportunity Pathways Accounts
- 2013-15 Budget Proposal Visualization: All Funds
Questions
If you have any questions about the budget visualizations, please contact Kris Rietmann, (360) 902-0401.
