BUDGET
Budget Questions and Answers
- General Questions on Voting and Voter Registration - Posted October 13, 2011
Tax Levy Cap Information
- Understanding Your District's Proposed Budget Under the Tax Levy Legislation (published by NYSASBO) - Posted April 17, 2012
- Q&A The Property Tax Cap from the NYSSBA - Posted March 29, 2012
- Answers to common questions on tax cap, tax levies and tax rates from the NYSSBA - Posted February 24, 2012
- Three Tax Levy Numbers (Published by Questar III and Capital Region BOCES) - Posted February 2, 2012
- NY's Tax Levy Limit Formula (Published by Questar III and Capital Region BOCES) - Posted February 2, 2012
- New York State's Property Tax Cap: A Citizen's Guide (Published by the Empire Center) - Posted January 10, 2012
- Understanding New York's Property Tax Levy Cap (Published by Capital Region BOCES
and Questar III) - Posted October 17, 2011 - Frequently Asked Questions - NY Property Tax Cap Legislation - Posted October 7, 2011
Budget News
- The New Reality for Schools: The First Budgets under the Tax Cap (Published by NYSSBA) - Posted May 15, 2012
- Tier VI Q & A (Published by the NYSSBA) - Posted May 1, 2012
- 2012-2013 Proposed Budget Newsletter - Posted April 25, 2012
- Meet the Candidates Night Canceled - Posted April 17, 2012
- Information on Voter Registration - Posted April 17, 2012
- Public Employee Pension in NYS (Published by Capital Region BOCES and Questar III) - Posted April 10, 2012
- Mandates and Mandate Relief (Published by Capital Region BOCES and Questar III) - Posted April 10, 2012
- New Rules for Budget Votes (Published by Capital Region BOCES and Questar III) - Posted April 10, 2012
- Property Tax Report Card - Posted April 3, 2012
- Press Release: Agreement Reached on 2012-2013 Budget- Posted March 28, 2012
- State Reaches Budget Agreement (NYSSBA) - Posted March 28, 2012
- The final Budget Review Session scheduled for Monday April 2nd is POSTPONED - Posted March 28, 2012
- Board Reviews Proposition #2 -- Wheelchair Buses -- for May Ballot - Posted March 9, 2012
- Mandate Relief Council Testimony by Dr. James N. Baldwin, district superintendent of Questar III - Posted February 29, 2012
- SUNY’s Personal Retirement Plan As a Model for Pension Reform (Published by the Empire Center) - Posted February 28, 2012
- Triborough Trouble (Published by the Empire Center) - Posted February 28, 2012
- NYSSBA Essential Fiscal Reform Playbook - Posted February 28, 2012
- Be the Change for Kids (Published by the New York State School Boards Association) - Posted February 28, 2012
- Education Speaks Hosts Mandate Monday - Posted February 22, 2012
- Board Adds Question and Answer Session to Budget Workshops - Posted February 17, 2012
- Demographic/Enrollment Projection Calculations and K-12 School Building Capacity Study Report– Posted February 15, 2012
- Whatever Happened to All Those Ideas From the Budget Forum? - Posted February 13, 2012
- Results of World Café Community Forum - Posted February 3, 2012
- Dr. Nagle Addresses the 2012-2013 Budget Process - Posted February 1, 2012
- Information on the Budget Vote and Board Election - Posted January 18, 2012
- NYSSBA 2012 Position Statements - Posted January 10, 2012
- NYSED Releases List of Mandates Frequently Raised in Discussions with School Leaders - Posted January 3, 2012
- Let NY Work Advocates for Mandate Relief - Posted January 3, 2012
- Board of Education to Host Second Community Forum - Posted January 3, 2012
- Mandate Relief Team Issues Final Report - Posted January 3, 2012
- Analysis Details Sharp Decline in State Support for Public School Funding - Posted December 23, 2011
- Refinance Leads to Significant Savings for the District - Updated December 8, 2011
- A Survey of Superintendents on Fiscal Matters (Published by the New York State Council of School Superintendents) - Posted October 17, 2011
- BRAC Begins School Consolidation Study - Posted October 13, 2011
- District Energy Savings Program Update - Posted October 13, 2011
- Board of Education Adopts 2012-2013 Budget Development Timeline - Posted October 13, 2011
Budget and Finance Documents
- 2012-2013 Proposed Budget and Required State-Supplied Information - Posted May 1, 2012
- Budget Hearing PowerPoint - Posted April 27, 2012
- 2012-2013 Budget Fact Sheet - Posted April 20, 2012
- 2012-2013 Budget Notice - Posted April 17, 2012
- April 4, 2012 Budget Presentation - Posted April 3, 2012
- March 21, 2012 Budget Presentation - Posted March 19, 2012
- March 12, 2012 Budget Presentation - Posted March 19, 2012
- NYS Real Property System Assessor's Exemption Impact Report 2011 - Updated March 20, 2012
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- Section A 2012-2013 Budget Process – Superintendent’s Materials and PowerPoint Presentation
- Section B Table of Contents
- Section C Preliminary Expenditure Summaries – March 7, 2012
- Section D General Fund Revenues, Inclusive of State Aid
- Section E Budget Review Sessions
- Section F Detailed Preliminary Expenditures – March 7, 2012
- Demographic/Enrollment Projection Calculations and K-12 School Building Capacity Study Report – Posted February 17, 2012
- 2012-2013 Initial Building Budget Allocations - Posted November 8, 2011
- Status of School Bus Fleet - Posted October 13, 2011
- 2012-2013 Budget Development Timeline - Posted October 13, 2011
- Board Policies
Overview of the Budget Process
Budget development starts in October when the Board of Education adopts a budget calendar. The Board also provides input to the administration on budget objectives and sets general parameters for the process.
The administration then prepares a budget with principals, department chairs and supervisors. Preliminary budgets are presented in March. The school board devotes time to budget development at its regular business meetings.
Administrators work to refine their numbers as more accurate cost estimates and enrollment figures are received during this period, and as Board members ask them to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of providing a service in a different way.
Throughout the winter and spring, school board members and administrators are also monitoring budget activity at the state level. School board members and administrators are in frequent contact with local legislators to inform them how various state funding proposals will affect East Greenbush schools.
The administration also looks at internal and external factors that are likely to have the greatest impact on the next year's budget. Such factors may include rising prices for fuel or health insurance.
In late March/early April (depending on state budget developments), the Board of Education votes on a proposed budget. A newsletter describing the budget is then printed and mailed to all district homes. A copy of the proposed budget broken down by line items is also available in late April at the main office of each school building, district office, public library and district website.
The public vote on the proposed budget is held by law on the third Tuesday in May, which this year will be May 15, 2012.