Fiscal year 2010 is the first year of a two-year budgeting cycle.  UHCL will face challenging decisions in preparation of the FY2010 budget.  Nonetheless UHCL will proceed, maintaining the integrity of the planning and budgeting process.

Keeping in step with the university's goals and objectives, the budget cycle focuses on four specific processes:  planning, budgeting, implementing, and assessing.  Strategies are prioritized at the unit level, the division level and finally, the component level to complete the process.  Component administrators present their priorities to component faculty and staff.  Component administrators then meet to combine their priority lists.  The combined list is circulated to the campus community for review and then presented to the university community and Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC).  Following the discussion at this open meeting, the President and Vice Presidents review any comments received and forward the final priority list to PBC.  PBC prioritizes and funds the strategies and forwards its recommendation to the President.   Upon the President’s approval, the final priority list is distributed to the university community and the funded priorities are input as part of the budget development process.