Charge The College of Marin’s allocation of resources and its processes for evaluation and planning shall demonstrate its capacity to fulfill its mission, improve the quality of its education, and respond capably to future challenges and opportunities.

The primary role of the Committee will be the responsibility to develop and review the effectiveness of budget assumptions and operations that pertain to and support instruction and student services. A consecutive emphasis will be to develop informed budgetary processes that are fair, understood by participants, and effective in allocating resources in the most beneficial manner.

Responsibilities

Consistent with general fund strategic intent, the Committee will make recommendations pertaining to the following:

• Long-term strategic budget planning.
• Revenue and expense assumptions.
• Budget deliberation practices.
• Budget request cycles reflecting expenditure requirements of departments, programs, and supportive services.
• An annual general fund budget with resource allocation criteria.
• General fund allocations available from supplementary resources.
• The Budget Committee will forward Committee reports and recommendations to the College President.
• All Budget Committee reports and recommendations will be presented to College Council as a point of information and as a recommendation to the President.

Consistent with operations, study on a quarterly basis:

• Incidental cost impacts on general fund units of operation.
• District revenue resources and fund amounts.
• Reserves for contingencies.
• Inter-fund transfers and revisions.
• Ending balances (by activity and object of expenditure title).
• Relationships between approved funding and actual expenditures.

Composition

• 7 faculty appointed by the Academic Senate one of whom will serve as a non-voting Co- chair except in the case of a tie.
• 3 classified staff appointed by the official classified staff appointing body
• 2 students appointed by the Student Senate
• 1 manager appointed by the Superintendent/President
• The Vice President of College Operations will serve as a non-voting Co-chair except in the case of a tie.

Co-chairs Responsibilities

• The Vice President of College Operations will serve as one Co-chair. The other Co-chair will be one of the 7 faculty members.
• Co-chairs will work together to set agendas and conduct meetings.
• Co-chairs will be non-voting except in the case of a tie vote by the committee in which case the Co-chairs will have a total of one vote with which to break the tie. If they cannot agree to vote together to break the tie with their one vote, they will refer the matter to the Superintendent President.
• One or both of the Co-chairs will also serve on the Planning Committee

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