Policies & Procedures Manual - Elizabeth City State University

400.4.3Adopted: 06/14/05ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITYBiennial Budget Requests1. ECSU submits budget requests for appropriations for both current operations and capitalimprovements using such forms, and at such times, as the Director of the Budget shall direct.Budget requests are submitted in accordance with detailed budget instructions which areissued by , the Office of State Budget and Management approximately 12 months prior to theconvening of each new General Assembly (in January or February of even numbered years).2. The budget requests provide for each program a statement of that program's goals, itsobjectives for the next two years, statistics supporting its objectives, and the line-item budgetfor the previous year (actual), current year (authorized) and next two years (recommended).3. The first step in the budget preparation process is the review by the Office of State Budgetand Management of these budget instructions and the schedule of completion dates for eachcomponent of the process. The instructions detail the concepts of the continuation,expansion, and capital budgets as they are to apply to the biennial budget under preparation.These concepts may vary from one biennium to the next, so new instructions are issued foreach budget.