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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.
  • Budget Initiatives and Program Enhancements are requests for additional funds for new programs or for expansion of current programs and activities.   A multi-year approach for budget initiatives will be utilized.  Associate superintendents should prepare requests for initiatives only after they have received approval from the deputy superintendent of schools and chief operating officer.
  • 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 2010, 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 2010 budget.  Targets for each office will be distributed as soon as they are determined.

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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