Top+5+-+Budget+Development

The resources I used for developing my top 5 budget development process included information obtained from interview of our school superintendent, budget development calendar located in resource section of course and TASBO power point also located in the resource section. Although I know there are many key points of the budget development process I felt the following to be the most important:
 * 1) November – Create a budget development plan. This includes setting budget priorities and initiatives identified as well as collecting and analyzing student projections.
 * 2) February – Distribute budget preparation documents to campuses and central offices.
 * 3) May – During board meeting review Preliminary Budget and revenue projections.
 * 4) August 20th – TEA mandated deadline – budget must be prepared by
 * 5) August 31st – TEA mandated deadline – district budget must be adopted by

Wiki group – What are you idea’s? I also think Tax rate should be somewhere in the mix – publicly post (newspaper), public hearing, adopted etc. I am open to additional ideas or suggestions. Todd: I agree with your suggestions..Murrell.. I would also like to put the Tax rate some were. The reason I picked these five. The first one defines a time to start the planning process and how it will be done. Number two and three involve additional stakeholders input and make process public. The last two are mandated dates set forth by TEA.