(12 page double spaced), choose an agency in the State of California (excluding California’s
Department of Education and California’s Governor Office), inform me for approval of your agency,
and write a double space 12-page paper. All papers must meet the usual scholarly standards.
Analyze the last three fiscal years of the budgets of the state agency and thoroughly explain the
details of the budget based on what you have learn in the course Public Budgeting and Financial
Administration and include the following points:
• Provide an overview of the agency’s budget.
• Describe the important parts of the budget.
• Identify revenues including taxes, fees, transfers in from other governments agencies
(state and federal), interest on investments, etc. and discuss in detail how revenues are
changing over time and why are they changing.
• Identify expenditures including spending on personnel (wages, salaries, benefits for
employees) and operating costs and discuss in detail how expenditures are changing
over time and why are they changing.
• Is the budget balanced? Has it been balanced in prior years? Explain in detail the
reasoning based on your analysis.
• Are required payments such as retirement contributions and repayment of debts being
made?
The agency I would like to focus on is the Contra Costa Office of Education. The link to the financial reports is below:
https://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/departments/business_services/financial_documents
Source wise it would be the Contra Costa Office of ED financial documents (Using the past 3 years budgets) attached
The California state budget https://ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2024-25/#/BudgetSummary
And maybe an outside article about the contra costa office of education
Here is also some things that should be on there
Intro
– Overview of agency
– Who is ultimately incharge or creating this budget?
-Purpose of agency?
-What is goals/mission of agency?
-What years are the budgets being analyzed
Describe important parts of budgets, anything that stands out?
Revenues- Taxes/ Fees/ Grants (any type of revenue) What is going on over time/changes over 3 years
Expenditures- What is different costs? Wages? Personnel? Operating costs? Increasing/ decreasing
Conclusion- is it balanced budget over 3 years, what is the overall outcome of the budget?, is it being managed properly.
Really the paper breaks down into intro section, important parts of this
budget, then a revenues section, Expenditures section, then conclusion
