EDLD 5342 School Finance Week 2 - Part 2 CONSENSUS Top 5

EDLD 5342 School Finance

Week 2 Assignment, Part 2

State Budget Development Insights and Reflections

CONSENSUS

In coming to consensus in Group 4 (Becky Prentice, Daniel Taylor, Shelley Rex, and Sheri Hawthorne), our group found it necessary to condense the six points outlined in the TASBO Budget Development powerpoint (slides 6 – 10, 2.6.1 Statement of Texas Law, Sections 44.002 through 44.006 of the Texas Education Code) into a list of five events and dates for the development of a district budget.  Each member of the group listed similar events on the group wiki (http://edld5342group4.blogspot.com/2011/04/group-4.html) , so it was relatively easy to agree on the top five events and dates listed as follows:

Date	Budget Development Process
January	Review/development of Board goals.
February	Development of DIP to align with Board of Trustee goals.
March	Establishment of district budget process with input from district stakeholders.
July	Board and district reviewing coming year's revenue from certified taxable values of the district based on WADA and PEIMS.
August	Proposed budget posting on August 20 and board adopted budget on/by August 31. (or June 30 if the district uses a July 1 fiscal year start date).

While we all agreed to the basic components needed in our five events, it was somewhat difficult to pick five individual events as several events happen simultaneously in the process.  As a group we decided that these explained those components. 

Our group communicated on Part 2 through varied technology.  We utilized the group wiki, the Epic discussion board, email and text messaging to identify discuss the information needed for this portion of the assignment.