Ohio University's Budget Planning Council met Friday to discuss the steps it will take during the winter to determine next year's budget.
Because Governor-elect John Kasich will not announce his budget until March, OU officials must create plans to deal with unknown amount cuts in state funding, said John Day, associate provost for academic budget and planning.
Our plans have to be very flexible
and we have to be willing to change them he said.
Here's what to expect from BPC for the next four to five months:
- Winter break into Winter Quarter: planning units discuss what areas of their budgets they can cut.
- Mid-Winter Quarter: BPC decides what cuts could come.
- March: the state legislature announces Ohio's budget.
- April or possibly later: OU's Board of Trustees votes to approve the university's budget.
- Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit will send out a more detailed timeline sometime next week, Day said.
With a new governor and a new biennium, both Day and Student Senate President Jesse Neader stressed the considerable uncertainty in which OU must operate next quarter.
We literally have zero numbers Neader said. A lot of (the meeting) was ... if it's really bad
how is the university going to change?
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