The Planning, Budgeting, and Assessment (PBA) process is the method the Butte-Glenn Community College District uses to integrate its planning, budgeting, and assessment efforts. The intent is to have planning inform the budget and for assessment to inform planning. The PBA process links episodic planning efforts - such as strategic planning, educational master planning, other master planning, and program review - into the annual budgeting process. It also generates the demographic, performance, and program information required to drive the overall planning effort.

The PBA process flowchart provides a graphic representation of the PBA process to include activities, timelines, and how each of these activities is integrated. Each step of the process is also available in the text description of the PBA process. A PBA calendar for 2008-09 is also available.

For Planning, these tools include the System Strategic Plan for the California Community Colleges, the District Strategic Plan, the Educational Master Plan (draft), and Planning Updates.

The Facilities, Human Resources, and Technology Master Plans will also be posted on this site as they are completed. Once finalized the Student Equity Plan and the Equal Employment Opportunity Plan will be posted to this site as well.

Budgeting is under the direction of the Office of Administration, which is responsible for coordinating the development of the District's annual budget. Starting in fall and continuing through spring, Leadership Teams review district priorities, goals and strategic direction, prior year's activity, and requests for additional or new funding via unit plans. The Vice President of Administration reviews and develops revenue and expenditure scenarios based on the latest information from state and local sources. A tentative budget is prepared for the Board of Trustees approval in June. A final budget is prepared in September, after the state has passed its budget and the district has closed the prior fiscal year.

The Assessment page contains a variety of items to describe demographics and organizational performance. These items include:

• Demographic Snapshot which describes community demographics, student enrollment patterns, and staff demographics,
• Balanced Scorecard which provides an overall assessment of institutional performance tied to the core indicators of effectiveness in the Educational Master Plan,
• Program Review Data Templates which provide nearly all of the program data required for program review as well as all of the data required for unit planning, and
• Survey Data which includes the results of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, the Student Survey, and the Faculty and Staff Survey.
• Links to the Student Learning Outcomes website and the Reports Server.