Timeline for Development and Approval of Budget and Levy

September

• Superintendent in cooperation with staff develops summer capital improvement projects

• Board of Education adopts resolution directing the Superintendent to prepare the next fiscal year budget

October

• Board of Education reviews long-range capital improvement priorities for summer work

• Board of Education reviews long-range operational projections for the next five (5) years and sets expenditure assumptions

November

• Board of Education reviews and confirms capital improvement projects and bidding

• Board of Education reviews tentative levy and places on display

• District administration reviews staffing pattern priorities

December

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• Board of Education adopts levy

• Staffing Plan development

• Continue review of staffing pattern priorities

January

• Continue Staffing Plan development

• Continue review of staffing pattern priorities

• Administration and staff develops supplies and materials requests for next year

February

• Personnel recommendations are received

March

• Current year purchase orders are completed and all funds encumbered by April 1

April

• Administration’s recommendation for the next year’s fiscal budget is presented to the Board of Education for review

• Board of Education approves the staffing plan for next school year

• Personnel recommendations are acted upon

August

• Board adopts tentative budget and directs Superintendent to place it on public review

September

• Board adopts final budget and directs appropriate filings with the State

Reviewed: February 28, 2005, April 23, 2012, October 21, 2024

Adopted:                     March 21, 2005

Revisions Adopted:    April 16, 2007; May 14, 2012, November 18, 2024