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What are Budget Considerations?

This guide provides essential budget review considerations for effective planning, including linking activities to needs, goals, and objectives, ensuring budget items are necessary and reasonable, and describing professional development and curriculum development activities. Additional assistance and resources are also provided.

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What are Budget Considerations?

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  1. What are Budget Considerations?

  2. General Budget Review Considerations • All activities must be linked to the stated needs and plan • Items included in the budget must connect with the needs, goals, objectives and strategies in the LEA Planning Cycle • Budget items must have sufficient description to determine if it is supplemental in nature, necessary, reasonable and allowable according to funding source. Items included in the budget for supplies and materials must be descriptive

  3. Professional Development • Professional development items must meet the criteria of sustained, ongoing and research based • Professional development budget item detail description includes the professional development topics, approximate number of staff, number of days planned, costs per day for staff and/or contracted consultants, supplies and materials or other related expenses; and/or a detailed description that links to the School Improvement Plan or AYP status or a separate Professional Development Plan • Items included in the budget for supplies and materials must be descriptive

  4. Allowable Expenses for Curriculum Development Activities Examples:

  5. OMB Circular A 87 • Co-funded Staff • Written schedules supported by personnel activity reports (PARS) • PARS • Prepared monthly • Signed and dated by employee accounting for total activity • Time sheets, etc., completed after the fact

  6. OMB Circular A 87 • Certification-solely on a single federal award or cost objective • Prepared semi-annually • Signed by the employee or a supervisor with first-hand knowledge of the work performed by the employee

  7. Further Assistance • U.S. Department of Education • Guidance Documents http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/edpicks.jhtml?src=ln • Office of Nonpublic Education http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oii/nonpublic/index.html • Michigan Department of Education • Office of School Improvement—Field Services • Technical Assistance packets on each grant source • Call your Field Services Consultant

  8. The Cycle of Planning 1 2 3 Comparability Worksheets Submitted 4

  9. Questions and Answers Contact your regional Office of School Improvement consultant: • Region 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517-373-4009 • Region 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517-373-0161 • Region 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517-373-6341 • Region 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517-373-4004 • Region 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517-373-4212

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