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Illinois School Board Journal
July/August 2001
Budget timeline
When it comes to building the annual budget in Galesburg Community School District 205, the board and former Superintendent Ronald L. Cope established the following year-long timeline for 2001:
| January 2001: | Budget forms and instructions disseminated to principals and supervisors. |
| March 8, 2001: | Budget Committee provided procedures and timelines. Preliminary revenue and expenditure projections provided. |
| March 16, 2001: | Completed budget forms and technology plans returned to business office for review and compilation. |
| April 2001: | Director of Finance visits schools and reviews building and departmental budget requests with principals/directors. |
| May 14, 2001: | Building/departmental budgets submitted to the Board of Education for approval. |
| June 2001: | Budget Committee reviews and approves tentative budget. |
| July 9, 2001: | Board of Education adopts tentative budget and authorizes publication. |
| September 10, 2001: | Board of Education conducts public budget hearing and adopts 2001-2002 budget. |
| November 12, 2001: | Board of Education approves tentative 2001 tax levy. |
| December 10, 2001: | Board of Education approves 2001 tax levy. |