§ 51624 Agency Budget Preparation Deadline

• •The agency must make a budget plan every year by December 1.
• •The budget plan is for the next year's work.
• •Big bosses like the Secretary of Business and the Director of Finance check this budget.
• •A group of lawmakers also looks at the budget to make sure it's okay.

Imagine your school club needs to plan how to spend money for next year's activities.

Just like your club, this agency has to write down how they will spend money next year and show it to the important people in charge by December 1. Those people then check if the plan is good or not.