Why, What, Where, Who, When
July 1 through June 30
What is the County fiscal year?
Funds received from various sources and treated as income by the County; used to finance expenditures.
What are revenues?
Location where you can find purchasing card and fleet policies and procedures.
What is the County intranet?
Personnel who complete required budget and staffing forms.
What are Budget and HR Staff?
The County website maintains copies of these documents for current and prior fiscal periods.
What is the County Budget?
The budget is organized by these "governing body" focus areas.
What are Board priorities?
Table that details individual budgets, including the identification of revenue, costs, and General Fund contributions.
What is a Schedule 9?
Time period covered by the new budget process.
What are two years?
These personnel identify and recommend performance improvements.
What are Middle Managers?
Attending one of these is a good way to enhance your understanding of the budget process.
What is a budget presentation (public hearing) before the Board of Supervisors?
Sets budget policies and processes, issues instructions and budget forms, and analyzes budget requests.
What is the Chief Executive Office?
Authorization granted by the Board of Supervisors to make expenditures.
What are appropriations?
Department providing accounting guidelines on the County intranet site.
What is the Auditor-Controller's office?
Department Heads and Leadership Staff set these for the two-year budget period.
What are objectives?
There are this many supervisorial districts represented by our Board of Supervisors.
What is five?
Typically presented to the Board in March, this document provides an assessment of budgetary spending midway through the fiscal year.
What is the Midyear Financial Report?
When budgeting for a vacant position, standard practice is to use costs by classification at this level.
What is Step 1?
Each two-year cycle is preceded by Board priority direction and this.
What is CEO strategic visioning?
This office develops budget recommendations for the Board of Supervisors.
What is the Chief Executive Office?
This group receives over half of the property tax revenue distributed annually.
What are schools?
California Government Code, Title 3, Division 3, Chapter 1.
What is the County Budget Act?
Revenue sources for which there are no restrictions on their use that are available to fund programs at the Board of Supervisors' discretion.
What is Discretionary Revenue?
Outside the Proposed Budget and Final Budget cycles, these periodic updates provide opportunities for budgetary adjustments throughout the fiscal year.
What are quarterly financial reports?
These leaders promote fiscal responsibility as a trustee and are dedicated to continuous improvement.
What are Upper Managers?
This Board priority area receives the largest portion of Discretionary Revenue.
What is Supporting Strong and Safe Neighborhoods?