Annually, the Board of Education approves a fiscal year budget as well as the tax levy. The following is a general timeline of these events.
End of June: Passage of a "Preliminary Budget" which allows Whitnall School District to continue necessary expenditures at the start of the new fiscal year (July 1).
August: Passage of a "Published Budget" which will be published in the local newspaper as well as presented at the Annual Meeting. It contains estimates given that variables still exist.
September: The "Published Budget" is presented to the Board and the Community and is voted upon. This is not the final budget as variables still exist.
End of October: The final budget, with finalized variables (State Aid, Equalized Property Values, and Student Membership), as well as the dollar amount to be levied is voted upon by the Board of Education.
November thru June: A monitoring of expenditures on a monthly basis (shown below)
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