CHARGE  
The Planning and Budget Council integrates the District’s planning and budget allocation processes, with a focus on ensuring that the District’s budgetary resources and planning processes support the District’s Mission. The Planning and Budget Council: 
 

1. Facilitates the District’s strategic planning process 
   • Facilitates creation of the Strategic Plan (Mission, Vision, Values, Goals, and Objectives); 
   • Monitors progress on Strategic Plan goals via key performance indicators; 
   • Annually reviews Strategic Plan and initiates a cycle of revision as needed. 
2.  Recommends creation of institutional plans (local) and regularly evaluates their effectiveness to support continuous improvement of quality educational programs and services and achievement of the District’s Mission.  
   • Evaluation utilizes federal performance indicators (ACCJC), state performance indicators (Chancellor’s Office), local indicators of effective outcomes, and other disaggregated student learning outcomes.  
3. Regularly reviews effectiveness measures for federal and state-funded plans, programs, and initiatives.   
4. Reviews Accreditation reports, evaluates progress on the Institutional Self-Evaluation Report Quality Focus Essay goals, and integrates Accreditation recommendations into planning goals, decisions, and budget allocation; 
5. Initiates and oversees the Program and Resource Planning Process (PRPP), and reviews and approves the prioritized PRPP requests to ensure alignment with Mission, Vision, and Values; 
6. Reviews Annual Unit Plans to ensure alignment and integration with the Mission, Vision, and Values articulated in the Strategic Plan; and receives reports on Unit Plan progress toward stated objectives and goals; 
7. Provides institutional review of and recommends resource allocation to support new academic programs, majors, and certificates recommended by the Academic Senate, and new student services programs; 
8. Reviews outcomes of the Program Review process (Policy 3.6/P), including recommendations for program revitalization and discontinuance, and recommends resource adjustments as needed; 
9. Reviews and, as necessary and appropriate, recommends revisions to key budget, financial, and planning process documents, including: 
   • The Planning and Budget Framework; 
   • Planning Calendar; 
   • Annual Financial and Audit Reports; 
   • Budget Calendar; and 
   • Budget Assumptions 
10. Recommends to the President on the decision to apply for grants, based on an assessment of resources required and the relevance of the grant to the District Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals, and ensuring consultation with or consideration of appropriate constituency groups; 

 
RECOMMENDS TO 
Superintendent/President 
 
SELF ASSESSMENT YEAR 
Even 
 
ACCJC STANDARDS 
1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.10 
 

MEMBERSHIP 

Membership Total: 25 

MEETINGS 

Meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month during the academic year, from 1:30 to 3:00 PM.  
 

BROWN ACT  
The Planning and Budget Council is not subject to the Brown Act.