Why, What, Where, Who, When
Revenues and Costs
Policies and Procedures
Roles and Responsibilities
Resources and Opportunities
100
July 1 through June 30
What is the County fiscal year?
100
Funds received from various sources and treated as income by the County; used to finance expenditures.
What are revenues?
100
Location where you can find GSA's fleet policy.
What is the County intranet?
100
Department HR staff is responsible to identify these needs and any associated funding.
What is staffing?
100
The County website maintains this resource from current and prior fiscal year periods.
What is the County Budget?
200
The budget is organized by these "governing body" focus areas.
What are Board priorities?
200
Table that details individual budgets, including the identification of revenue, costs, and General Fund contributions.
What is a Schedule 9?
200
Time frame covered by the new budget process.
What are two years?
200
Department Heads and Senior Leadership staff set these for the two-year budget period.
What are objectives?
200
The number of supervisorial districts represented by the Board of Supervisors.
What is five?
300
Analyzes department budget requests and makes recommendations to the Board.
What is the Chief Executive Office?
300
Authorization granted by the Board of Supervisors to make expenditures.
What are appropriations?
300
Department providing accounting guidelines on the County intranet site.
What is the Auditor-Controller's office?
300
These staff adhere to policies on how staff resources and dollars are committed.
What are Front-line Supervisors?
300
The Budget at a Glance document covers information for this budget cycle.
What is Final Budget or the 2017-2018 Adopted Final Budget?
400
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?
400
When budgeting for a vacant position, standard practice is to use costs for the classification at this level.
What is Step 1?
400
Budget cycle wherein State Budget impacts are incorporated as needed.
What is Final Budget?
400
This office sets budget policies and processes.
What is Chief Executive Office?
400
Attendance at one of these is an excellent way to better understand the budget process.
What are budget presentations at Board meetings?
500
California Government Code, Title 3, Division 3, Chapter 1.
What is the County Budget Act?
500
Revenue sources for which there are no restrictions on their use that is available to fund programs at the Board of Supervisors' discretion.
What is Discretionary Revenue?
500
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?
500
These leaders hold staff accountable for monitoring existing resources and expenditures, adhering to authorized spending plan and making necessary adjustments.
What are Upper Managers?
500
These entities are the largest recipient of local property taxes.
What are schools?
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