Budget Submission Development and Preparation Guide
INTRODUCTION
There are five major parts associated with the development and preparation of your budget submission:
- The Program Mission Summary is the narrative portion of your budget. It describes the unit’s mission, functions, trends, mandates, etc.
- The Base or Same Services Level Budget is the part of the budget that provides for next year, resources necessary to continue current functions, activities, and services. For FY 2011, associate superintendents and staff will be required to continue to thoroughly review existing programs to make sure that they are aligned with the MCPS strategic plan, "Our Call to Action: Pursuit of Excellence" and use a zero-based approach to review how resources are used and allocated to carry of the work of the units.
- Organization Charts that display the major functional and reporting relationships that exist among and between units in an office, and personnel complements.
- The Program Efficiency, Abandonment, and Redirection (PEAR) process will provide information on how to reduce the budget or realign resources from lower to higher priority programs. Based on the fiscal outlook, this process will be instituted again for the FY 2011 budget. Targets for each office will be distributed as soon as they are determined.
- The Program Budget Narratives are brief descriptions of programs that have been published in the Program Budget. Managers will need to review and edit the descriptions to show the alignment of the program(s) with the strategic plan.
Detailed information and directions for preparing each part of the budget submission are provided in the PDF document below. Find all budget forms that you will need to complete your submission. One form is not available on the website but will be E-mailed to you.
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