(1) On or before the date prescribed in rules of the State Board of Education, each district school board shall receive and examine the tentative budget submitted by the district school superintendent, and shall require such changes to be made, in keeping with the purposes of the school code, as may be to the best interest of the school program in the district.
(2) The district school board shall determine, within prescribed limits, the reserves to be allotted for contingencies, and the cash balance to be carried forward at the end of the year. If the district school board shall require any changes to be made in receipts, in the reserves for contingencies, or in the cash balance to be carried forward at the end of the year, it shall also require necessary changes to be made in the appropriations for expenditures so that the budget, as changed, will not contain appropriations for expenditures and reserves in excess of, or less than, estimated receipts and balances.
(3) The proposed budget shall include an amount for local required effort for current operation, in accordance with the requirements of s. 1011.62(4).
(4) When a tentative budget has been prepared in accordance with rules of the State Board of Education, the proposed expenditures, plus transfers, and balances shall not exceed the estimated income, transfers, and balances. The budget and each of the parts thereof shall balance.
(5) The district school board shall adopt a tentative budget.
History.—s. 605, ch. 2002-387.
Structure Florida Statutes
Title XLVIII - Early Learning-20 Education Code
Chapter 1011 - Planning and Budgeting
Part I - Preparation, Adoption, and Implementation of Budgets (Ss. 1011.01-1011.57)
Subpart A - District School Boards:Preparation, Adoption, andImplementation of Budgets
1011.02 - District school boards to adopt tentative budget.
1011.03 - Public hearings; budget to be submitted to Department of Education.
1011.035 - School district fiscal transparency.
1011.05 - Implementation of the official budget.
1011.051 - Guidelines for general funds.
1011.08 - Expenditures between July 1 and date budget becomes official.
1011.09 - Expenditure of funds by district school board.
1011.11 - Certain provisions to be directory.
1011.12 - Purposes of and procedures in incurring school indebtedness.
1011.13 - Current loans authorized under certain conditions.
1011.14 - Obligations for a period of 1 year.
1011.15 - Obligations to eliminate major emergency conditions.
1011.16 - Provisions for retirement of existing indebtedness which is unfunded or in default.
1011.17 - School funds to be paid to Chief Financial Officer or into depository.
1011.18 - School depositories; payments into and withdrawals from depositories.
1011.19 - Sources of district school fund.
1011.20 - Apportionment and use of district school fund.
1011.21 - Source and use of district interest and sinking fund.
1011.22 - Interest and sinking funds may be invested in certain bonds, warrants, and notes.
1011.23 - Disposition of balance in interest and sinking fund.