The Office of Management and Budget has issued a
worksheet for agencies with over 1,000 full-time-equivalent
employees to ensure they use actual FTE strength in
their fiscal 2007 budget submissions to OMB rather
than budgeted FTE levels.
Stating that the president’s management agenda is making
it possible “to operate with fewer personnel” in some
areas as the government expands activities in others,
OMB said that while FTE ceilings would not be imposed
at this time, “agencies should be aware that that FTE
usage will be monitored more closely.”
Agencies are required to submit a completed worksheet
– “changes in full-time equivalents” – with their
2007 budget submissions to OMB in September, which
“will then be revised to reflect fiscal 2006
appropriations and final decisions on the fiscal
2007 President’s budget,” then resubmitted by mid-December.
“The final worksheet would be used to generate FTE
levels reported in MAX A-11 for the President’s
budget,” said the memo, available here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/index.html
