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Chief Administrative Office recommending the Board:
1) Review and Accept the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Master Budget Calendar; and
2) Appoint two members to the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Budget Ad Hoc Committee. (Est. Time: 10 Min.)
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
FY 2020-21 Master Budget Calendar
The Master Budget Calendar guides the timeline for development of the Recommended and Adopted Budgets, as well as the close-out of the prior year. As part of the FY 2017-18 budget development, the Chief Administrative Office included additional meetings to ensure adequate and timely communication of budget requests and major policy and funding issues to and between County Departments, the Chief Administrative Office, and the Board of Supervisors. These meetings are scheduled again for the FY 2020-21 budget development process, as highlighted below.
It is recommended that the series of Department presentations be scheduled again for FY 2020-21. These presentations will be held within existing Board meeting dates during January and February, allowing each Department approximately 10 minutes to provide a brief overview of its programs. These briefings are intended to focus on programs, requirements, and challenges, and are not meant to be discussions on budget needs or requests.
The FY 2020-21 budget development process incorporates the new functionality of the 2019 FENIX budget module that is going live in November 2019. The proposed dates for the creation of budget projections and the budget workshop have been adjusted to accommodate the switch to FENIX 2019. Staff have tested the update and revised all training materials to the new functionality.
This year, the Chief Administrative Office is planning on Departments submitting completed budget requests on February 21, 2020, essentially the same due date as the prior year. It is important to note that based on the way the FENIX Budget Module operates, work on subsequent phases of the Budget development cannot mo...
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