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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="5-101" title_number="5" title_name="Financing" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Budget and Reporting Requirements">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to the rules and regulations of the State Board and with the advice of the county superintendent, each county board shall prepare an annual budget according to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The major categories listed in this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any other major category required by the State Board.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In addition to the information required by this section, the county fiscal authorities may require the county board to provide details to the service areas and activities levels in the account structure within the “Financial Reporting Manual for Maryland Public Schools”.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>With the annual budget, each county board shall provide:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The number of full–time equivalent positions included within each major category; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A description of any fund balances or other money held by any outside source, including an insurer, that are undesignated or unreserved and are under the direction and control of the county board.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The State Board shall adopt a process for the uniform reporting of the information in subsection (b) of this section to timely share the information provided by a county board in subsection (b) of this section to a county governing body.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The budget shall be prepared to include the following categories:</text>
    <text>Part I</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Current expense fund, estimated receipts:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Revenue from local sources;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Revenue from State sources;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Revenue from federal sources;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Unliquidated surplus, the actual from the previous fiscal year and the estimated from the current fiscal year, whether accrued from revenues or expenditures; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Revenue from all other sources with identification of the source.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Current expense fund, requested appropriations:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Administration, which means those activities associated with the general regulations, direction, and control of the county board, including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Executive administration;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Business support services; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>Centralized support services;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Mid–level administration, including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The office of the school principal; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Staff providing administration and supervision to the school instructional programs;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Instructional salaries, which means those activities which deal directly with teaching students, including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Teachers;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Aides;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>Psychological personnel;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>Guidance counselors; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>Library personnel;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Textbooks and classroom instructional supplies;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Other instructional costs;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Special education with subcategories and items budgeted in this category to be determined by the State Board with the advice of the county board;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Student personnel services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>Health services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>Student transportation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>Operation of plant and equipment;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>Maintenance of plant;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xii">
        <text>Fixed charges;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xiii">
        <text>Food services; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xiv">
        <text>Capital outlay.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Current funds held in reserve, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Revenue to and expenditures from funds held in reserve in the prior fiscal year; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Appropriations planned in the upcoming fiscal year from funds held in reserve.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The amount of any federal funds received in the last fiscal year, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Expenditures of the federal funds in the prior fiscal year;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A description of whether the federal funds are committed for a particular purpose; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The anticipated timing to appropriate the federal funds in the upcoming fiscal year.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The amount of funds held in trust or otherwise dedicated toward long–term obligations for retiree health care costs or other postemployment benefits, and information used to calculate the county board’s obligation for those costs.</text>
      <text>Part II</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>School construction fund, estimated receipts:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Revenue from local sources;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Sale of bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>State General Public School Construction Loan;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Revenue from State sources;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Revenue from federal sources;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Unliquidated surplus, the actual from the previous fiscal year and the estimated for the current fiscal year, whether accrued from revenues or expenditures; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Funds from all other sources, with identification of the source.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>School Construction Fund, requested appropriations:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Land for school sites;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Buildings and the equipment that will be an integral part of a building by project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>School site improvement by project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Remodeling by project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Additional equipment by project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Debt service; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>An amount that is adequate to satisfy a final court judgment that, after exhaustion of the rights of appeal, is rendered against the county board of education or any of its officers or employees.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In addition to all other information required by this section, the Montgomery County Board of Education, on request of the County Executive and County Council, shall provide with the annual budget the program implications of recommendations for reductions to or increases in its annual budget, at whatever different levels of funding and accompanied by whatever reasonable supporting detail and analysis, as may be specified by the County Executive and County Council. Prior to the submission of the annual budget, similar information shall be submitted by the Superintendent of Schools upon request by the County Executive or County Council.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The budget document shall contain an addendum showing estimated expenditures for special education as defined by the “Financial Reporting Manual for Maryland Public Schools”.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>In addition to all other information required by this section, the Cecil County Board of Education, on request of the Cecil County Board of Estimates, shall provide with the annual budget separate information on the number of and costs associated with school–based noninstructional personnel.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In addition to all other information required by this section, the Prince George’s County Board of Education shall provide to the County Executive and County Council with the annual budget, information relating to each of the following categories:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Instructional supplies and materials;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Additional equipment;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Replacement equipment; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Availability payments related to any public–private partnership agreement entered into under §§ 4–126 and 4–126.1 of this article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For the categories specified in paragraph (1) of this subsection, the following information shall be provided for the public school system in the county:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Proposed expenditures for the next school year based on the annual budget;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Estimated expenditures for the current school year; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Actual expenditures for the prior school year.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
