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View submission: Explain Like I’m Five: What Do Superintendents Actually Do?
Budgeting SUCKS.
I went to local government to get administrative experience. My manager spends at least half the year with the budget then an endless month presenting/trying to get the budget approved. This includes reviewing the last budget, reviewing prepared documents to help analyze trends and current needs, making projections for infrastructure, people, and asset management, then filing requests for council to review and negotiate and approve any increases or major movement of money, and then they have to go back and change it according to councils recommendations and wished then re-present it for approval. I’ve seen managers handle the most insane questions from elected officials on camera in a semi public meeting. At that moment, I was glad to be a middle manager who helped with the documents and had morning to do with reviewing or presenting.
Why are you asking for nearly triple the dollars in this category?
Because inflation has tripled the price of the supplies we need to do the actions in that category?
Can you get me the numbers to prove that?
Yeah, that’s on page 12 in the inflation report.
There's nothing here!