New budgets

[button_ripple]

So, new financial year coming up, finally get to spend some money. The question is:

 

When do you get your budget given to you?

 

We have just been told that we can spend as of the end of May!!

[FN-GM]

We just get told spend what you need.

[localzuk]

We get ours towards the end of April, beginning of May. And it works out about £5k for general ICT purchasing (ie. new staff laptops and the like), £2k for ICT as a subject, including consumables for projectors, and £15k for 'big projects', ie. new servers etc...

 

Bit lower than usual as we've got a very tight budget this year.

[OverWorked]

Despite working here 6 years and being promoted to ICT Manager, I still don't get to manage a budget.

 

I have to ask the SMT for everything I need and have no idea of where the money comes from or how much there is left.

 

Having said that though, it's not often my requests are turned down. :-)

[Gatt]

getting £60k (£30K admin, £30k curric)

[kmount]

I've seen mine and its not looking good

[tech-man]

snap, not looking too good this year ....

[MK-2]

heh, our school is £500,000 in debt, making 18 redundancies before summer and have BSF within the year.

Guess what our budget will be!

[Vegas]

30k to run the school (maintenance, consumables etc.)

Our main capitation bid this year (new IT suite, backbone upgrade etc.) is 107k, we are due to meet with the Head and Business Manager after the easter break where hopefully they say yes, never had a no yet.

[Sylv3r]

£25k Maintenance and Consumable - this includes small bits and pieces also

 

£80k Harnessing Technology & Capital Funding - will use this for the replacement of our 3 -4 year PC's.

[GrumbleDook]

Budget slashed by a third this year but still got some fun stuff in there.

[tech_guy]

What's a budget?!

[adamf]

200k here for everything excluding comsumables - faculities pay for them out of their budgets!

[elsiegee40]

Budget! * Falls off chair choking *

 

There is one; I don't generally find out what it actually is;

 

TBH I have to put forward a business case for non-consumable spend... and then for significant expenditure it has to be approved by the governing body. I never get told that I have so many thousand to spend on new hardware in the coming year. It's a case of pitching for the money when it's needed.

[contink]

All my schools have had to slash their budgets and my visits have been cut to the bare minimum. Mainly because they're sorting projectors and whiteboards while they still can.

 

Seems it's bad all over..

[Wildebeaste]

Had a chat with the Business manager before Easter. Hopefully they'll tell me exactly what I get at some point... possibly... maybe...

 

Just had a new SIMS server put in £5K. 2 x Quad Core, 8 Gb RAM. Lovely. Should keep things going a while.

 

Probably get about £6K to maintain servers, workstations, projectors, printers. Get a 3 year loan for 110 new laptops to replace the 4 year old ones the staff use for SIMS - about £40K. Replace about 90 workstations (£27K) and about the same number of TFTs to replace CRTs (£8K). Then there's the new Media Studies room 10 machines (£4.5K) + fibre networking and a couple of new Gb switches - and I need some fast storage for their top quality project work - £????.

 

Then there's the new Music Tech room. 3 or 4 Macs. Networking.

 

Then there's the moving of two computer rooms - networking, new fibre. £???K

 

That's not even mentioning the £5K I've got to buy some more storage space. That won't get much of a SAN unless I build my own .

 

And all for September. Bugger.

[john]

Ive been just sent a shopping list by one of my places saying please order for us including laptops etc so either there spending new budget already or expected me to be doing too much to forget to order it, either way its ordered and invoiced as of this friday be it new budget spend or not

[dave.81]

My budget runs Sept-Aug so still middle of the year for me, though i am in the process of putting together my list for the new budget. This year got 7K for day to day running repairs, bulbs, etc. 3K print ink budget put this gets added to by departments termly when they are billed for printing. 20K for software licences, 4k for net, and depending on year 30-80k on other larger projects like replacing pc's etc.

Am due a meeting with HM to see what his vision is for next year and see how i can squeeze the money to fit.

[steve]

Just had ours approved

 

200K for replacement, expansion, licensing, etc

 

And a budget to buy inks / toners / other bits and bobs - all of which we bill back to the departments, so in effect it should balance out each year.

[smallsoldier]

we got 137k last year and not seen this years but everything on our wish list we have, but have a lower budget due to smaller yr 7 intake must have been a bad year relationship wise lol!!! Got the spend ok 2 weeks ago but my boss the net manager (will put in the ffs forum bit) is taking his time putting thru my orders that are still sitting on his desk!!

[CyberNerd]

Interesting thread, but it's difficult to translate because a 20k budget might be a lot to a small primary, but not much to a large secondary.

 

Any chance you guys can work out the budget £ per pupil and repost.

Edited April 10, 2008 by CyberNerd

[powdarrmonkey]

Yep, we have to scrape £25k off our plans this year because of the squeeze. I don't understand why there's so little money this year though.

[CyberNerd]

I don't understand why there's so little money this year though.

 

You got a VLE, right?

[markcuk]

we still have 18k left from last year still waiting for head to give us the go ahead for a tape library and san solution we tendered for 6 months ago!!! took months speaking to different suppliers getting the appropriate quotes together etc.

 

MAKE A DECISION MAN ItS NOT HARD

Edited April 10, 2008 by markcuk

[powdarrmonkey]

Ye-es, but we bid for what we got last year and this year got £25k less, that's what I don't understand.

 

Asked the boss and he sortof shrugged and said that that's just what's been decided. Means half our projects can go by the wayside, anyway.