Comments on: The Budget Bowl Begins http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2007/12/19/the-budget-bowl-begins/ Blog-Fu for Prince William, Manassas and Manassas Park politics. Wed, 23 May 2012 10:57:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Turn PW Blue http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2007/12/19/the-budget-bowl-begins/#comment-45553 Turn PW Blue Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:57:36 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2007/12/19/the-budget-bowl-begins/#comment-45553 anonymoustoo: The schools will take the same portion of the budget they've taken for the last decade: 56.75%. There is a standing agreement between the BOCS and School Board for this amount. anonymoustoo:

The schools will take the same portion of the budget they’ve taken for the last decade: 56.75%. There is a standing agreement between the BOCS and School Board for this amount.

]]> By: anonymoustoo http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2007/12/19/the-budget-bowl-begins/#comment-45488 anonymoustoo Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:44:33 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2007/12/19/the-budget-bowl-begins/#comment-45488 I've always been under the impression that the creation of a final budget has been a series of back and forths between staff and the board. Could a few somebodies be afraid that the resolution isn't top priority? I'd bet that more people are concerned about the schools and,of course, they'll take a large part of our collected taxes. But thanks for the reminder to email my supervisor. I’ve always been under the impression that the creation of a final budget has been a series of back and forths between staff and the board. Could a few somebodies be afraid that the resolution isn’t top priority? I’d bet that more people are concerned about the schools and,of course, they’ll take a large part of our collected taxes.

But thanks for the reminder to email my supervisor.

]]> By: One Voice http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2007/12/19/the-budget-bowl-begins/#comment-45476 One Voice Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:19:23 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2007/12/19/the-budget-bowl-begins/#comment-45476 Call your supervisors, volunteer to be on a Budget Committee and rock on'.... Call your supervisors, volunteer to be on a Budget Committee and rock on’….

]]> By: AWCheney http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2007/12/19/the-budget-bowl-begins/#comment-45472 AWCheney Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:05:52 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2007/12/19/the-budget-bowl-begins/#comment-45472 "...as the next phase takes this guidance to the county staff, which will then secretly craft their budget proposals and then come back to the county board with opaque requests for funds that in no way are sufficient to explain why an agency really needs the dollars they’re requesting." I really don't understand what's so difficult about getting sufficiently detailed budget reports from staff. It should actually be very simple...staff should be TOLD that, if the report is not sufficiently detailed and the requests clear and concise, their budget won’t be considered. Just as when dealing with children, the Supervisors must be consistent and demand that the staff do what they are told...no matter WHAT department screws it up they should then be required to redo the request in preparation to appear before the Board in the supplemental budget hearings to justify their funding demands. I doubt that it would be more than one budget cycle before ALL departments do their job properly. I don't believe that the department heads would want to appear in public on bended knee more than once. “…as the next phase takes this guidance to the county staff, which will then secretly craft their budget proposals and then come back to the county board with opaque requests for funds that in no way are sufficient to explain why an agency really needs the dollars they’re requesting.”

I really don’t understand what’s so difficult about getting sufficiently detailed budget reports from staff. It should actually be very simple…staff should be TOLD that, if the report is not sufficiently detailed and the requests clear and concise, their budget won’t be considered. Just as when dealing with children, the Supervisors must be consistent and demand that the staff do what they are told…no matter WHAT department screws it up they should then be required to redo the request in preparation to appear before the Board in the supplemental budget hearings to justify their funding demands. I doubt that it would be more than one budget cycle before ALL departments do their job properly. I don’t believe that the department heads would want to appear in public on bended knee more than once.

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