The Budget Advisory Committee, which was part of the previous planning process, will remain as a standing sub-committee of the College Planning Committee, co-chaired by the Vice-President of Administrative Services and a designee of the Academic Senate.  The charge and composition of the BAC will not change; however, rather than meeting monthly, BAC will schedule meetings as necessary but with an expected minimum of two meetings per semester.

Charge of Committee:

The Budget Advisory Committee, representing the breadth of the college community, coordinates planning and budgeting processes through the following charge from the Superintendent/President and the Board of Trustees:

• To develop an understanding of the College’s revenue and expenditures as a foundation for participating in the budget process
• To use the college’s priorities (as outlined by the Institutional College Planning Committee and as may be designated by the college Executive Committee) to prepare recommendations for budget development, including budget assumptions and priority lists for distribution of additional income
• Identify underlying principles (practices) used when making decisions regarding reallocation of funds and facilitate the reallocation of existing resources based on institutional planning.
• To review the draft budget in its development stages
• To present the adopted budget to the College Planning Committee for information and to the Superintendent/President for approval
• To serve as a forum for on-going fiscal activities such as monthly and quarterly fiscal reports to the Board
• To identify strategies which can be implemented to make the budget process more “user friendly”
• To identify emerging trends and/or needs that have college-wide budgetary impact
• To educate members of the college community on the process for developing the budget and to encourage feedback from them
• To monitor and evaluate the budget process
• To review and share information on the state budget and state budgeting process as it relates to California Community Colleges
• To serve as a conduit for communicating the committee’s activities to its represented constituencies and to other college committees

Approved by the Academic Council, Dec. 11, 2007

Spring 2008 Membership and Meeting Schedule