Oversight tasks

As of July 2003.

The Game & Fish Fund Citizen Oversight subcommittees are charged under the statute to:

• Review the DNR annual report on revenues and expenditures for the Game & Fish Fund; review the proposed work plans and budgets for the coming year; propose changes in policies, activities, and revenue enhancements or reductions; review other relevant information; and make recommendations to the legislature and the commissioner for improvements in the management and use of money in the game and fish fund.

The Budgetary Oversight Committee (BOC) is charged under the statute to:

• Coordinate the integration of the subcommittee reports into an annual report to the legislature; recommend changes on a broad level in policies, activities, and revenue enhancements or reductions; provide a forum to address issues that transcend the subcommittees; and submit a report for any subcommittee that fails to submit its report in a timely manner;
• Develop recommendations for a biennial budget plan and report for expenditures on game and fish activities and submit the budget plan recommendations to the commissioner by August 15 of each even-numbered year; and
• Make recommendations to the commissioner for outcome goals from expenditures.