Monitoring the budget involves scrutinising the variances.
A Fidesz MP, József Varga, has introduced legislation to cut the budget of the Fiscal Council, the independent watchdog charged with monitoring the budget, from 835m forints ($4m) to 10m, in effect killing it off.
Whether it is managing the currency, monitoring the budget, or protecting the environment, stability and inclusion make things much easier to agree on.
The Financial Control Board, which monitors the budget, asked the city to "develop actions with recurring value".
"This is a classic get-out-of-town budget," said Jean Ross, executive director of the California Budget Project, a liberal-leaning group that monitors the budget.
Not Shy About Warnings One result of the city's fiscal crisis of the 1970's was the creation of a number of boards to monitor the budget.
The Independent Budget Office, a non-partisan city agency that monitors the budget, estimated that the contract could wind up costing the city even more money.
"That sounds pretty nasty, doesn't it?" said Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch, a group that monitors the budget office.
That was part of a list of suggestions that they gave to him or to his people to monitor the budget on the show".
The budget process is not only a " series of serious discussions" (KI 18, policy maker) between the Bureau of Budget and the Financing subcommittee, it has been made a " public issue" (KI 18, policy maker) gradually creating public ownership when the media monitored the budget discussions, and civil society held the government accountable to use evidence.
