The system shall be governed by the following general principles:

(1) Planning, programming, budgeting, evaluation, appraisal and reporting shall be by programs or groups of programs.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-64

  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Full cost: means the total cost of a program, system or capability, including research and development costs, capital investment costs, and operating costs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-62
  • Means of financing: means the various sources from which funds are available and includes the general fund, special fund, revolving fund, general obligation bonds, reimbursable general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, federal aid interstate highway fund, federal aid primary road fund, federal aid secondary road fund, federal aid urban fund, other federal funds, private contributions, county funds, trust funds, and other funds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-62
  • Nonadd: means a program which is listed with an objective or a program grouping, but the cost of which is not to be included in the total cost of that objective or program grouping because it is included in some other objective or program group. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-62
  • Objective: means a statement of the end result, product, or condition desired, for the accomplishment of which a course of action is to be taken. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-62
  • operating: include personal services, current lease payments, other current expenses, equipment, and motor vehicles. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-62
  • Planning: means that process by which government objectives are formulated; measures by which effectiveness in attaining the objectives are identified; alternatives by which objectives may be attained are determined; the full cost, effectiveness and benefit implications of each alternative are determined; the assumptions, risks and uncertainties of the future are clarified; and cost and effectiveness and benefit tradeoffs of the alternatives are identified. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-62
  • Program: means a combination of resources and activities designed to achieve an objective or objectives. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-62
  • Program structure: means a display of programs which are grouped in accordance with the objectives to be achieved, or the functions to be performed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-62
  • Programming: means that process by which government's long-range program and financial plans are scheduled for implementation over a six-year period and which specifies what programs are to be implemented, how they are to be implemented, when they are to be implemented, and what the costs of such implementation are. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-62
(2) The state program structure shall be such as will enable meaningful decisions to be made by the governor and the legislature at all levels of the structure. At its lowest level, it shall display those programs which are the simplest units of activities, about which resource allocation decisions are to be made by the governor and the legislature.
(3) A program which serves two or more objectives shall be placed in the program structure along with that objective which it primarily serves; where desirable, it shall also be placed with other objectives, but as a nonadd item.
(4) The full cost, including research and development, capital and operating costs, shall be identified for all programs regardless of the means of financing; costs shall be displayed in the year of their anticipated expenditure, regardless of whether such costs have been authorized to be expended by prior appropriations acts or are authorized to be expended by existing law or require new appropriations or authorizations.
(5) Objectives shall be stated for every level of the state program structure.
(6) The effectiveness of programs in attaining objectives shall be assessed.
(7) Planning shall have a long-range view.
(8) Systematic analysis in terms of problems, objectives, alternatives, costs, effectiveness, benefits, risks and uncertainties shall constitute the core of program planning.

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