District Budget Advisory Committee

Purpose:
The District Budget Advisory Committee will be an ad hoc committee charged with developing recommendations to share with Superintendent Phelps with respect to imminent budget challenges facing Poway Unified School District.  The committee’s purpose is not to audit the District’s financial operations, but to become familiar with the District’s financial data in order to offer suggestions to help improve the District’s fiscal position moving forward. Ideally, these recommendations would be put forward by the committee by consensus.

Parameters:

• Assist the District in analyzing current/past expenditures with a view toward increasing efficiencies and savings
• Review District appropriations, expenditures, and programs in anticipation of 2018-19 Budget development
• Focus on non-negotiable areas
• Generate ideas for possible opportunities for:
  • Potential savings
  • Shared services
  • Alternative revenues
• The District will cooperate and assist the committee by making available relevant and requested, non-confidential, financial information.
• The committee will provide a report of recommendations to the Superintendent and/or Board of Education.
• All policy-making and financial authority remains, as it must by statute, with the Board of Education.

 

Membership:
The committee consists of 3 current District & School Site Administrators, 2 District Certificated Staff Members, 4 Parent/Guardians, 2 High School Students, 2 Representatives of Bargaining Units (PFT/PSEA), 2 District Classified Staff Members, and 4 Community/Business members.
 
Ron Little, Chair; Joy Ramiro, Vice-Chair
 
Timeline:

August 2017	Formation of committee & first meeting
November/December 2017	Preliminary recommendations presented
May 2018	Final recommendations presented
Meeting Dates for 2017-18		Agenda	Minutes
Wednesday, August 30, 2017	Round Table Room 204	Agenda	Minutes
Wednesday, September 13, 2017	Community Room 102	Agenda	Minutes
Wednesday, September 27, 2017	Round Table Room 204	Agenda	Minutes
Wednesday, October 11, 2017	Community Room 102	Agenda	Minutes
Tuesday, November 7, 2017	Community Room 102	Agenda	Minutes
Wednesday, November 15, 2017	Round Table Room 204	Agenda	Minutes
Wednesday, December 6, 2017	Community Room 102	Agenda
Tuesday, January 23, 2018	Community Room 102
Thursday, February 15, 2018	Community Room 102
Wednesday, March 14, 2018	Round Table Room 204
Monday, April 2, 2018	Community Room 102

  

The District appreciates your commitment to serving on the District Budget Advisory Committee.