FILE:  DA

FISCAL MANAGEMENT GOALS
The Board recognizes that good fiscal management is essential to the educational program of the district. To this end, the Board intends:

  1. To encourage advance planning through the best possible budgetary procedures and the use of a budget calendar.
  2. To explore all practical and legal sources of dollar income including the aggressive search and application for federal, state, and private grants.
  3. To guide the expenditure of funds so as to achieve the greatest educational returns.
  4. To require maximum efficiency in accounting and reporting procedures.
  5. To make every effort to maintain a level of per pupil expenditure needed to provide high quality education.
  6. To make every effort to attain and maintain a ten percent (10%) fund equity when adopting the budget.

As trustees of community, state, and federal funds allocated for use in local education, the Board has the responsibility to protect such funds and use them wisely.

REVISED: 11-14-89
 

The Benton Harbor Area Schools, Berrien County, Michigan