Preparing for
FY27 Budget Development
Maynard Jackson High School
GO Team Business Meeting January 21, 2026
cation Agenda
Action Items
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APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA
APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MINUTES
2025-2030 STRATEGIC PLAN (AFTER DISCUSSION)
RANKING STRATEGIC PLAN OBJECTIVES (AFTER DISCUSSION)
Discussion Items
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Proposed Program Changes (If needed)
Finalize the 2025-2030 Strategic
Plan
2026-2027 Strategic Objectives Rankings
Finalizing the 2025-2030
School Strategic
Plan
In Our Last Meeting We…
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Reviewed Our Proposed Mission and Vision for 2025-2030
Reviewed Our Proposed Goals for 2025-2030
Identified Our 2025-
2030 Strategic Objectives
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Review Data
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Identify 2025-2030 Strategic Objectives
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Approve Your Strategic Plan & Rank Your
Strategic Objectives for FY27
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Confirm 2030 Goals
Sample GO Team Business Meeting Cadence
Business Meeting 1:
Business Meeting 2:
Business Meeting 3:
Business Meeting 4 :
Align Mission/Vision/Purpose
5. Approve Strategic Plan & Rank Strategic Objectives for FY27 Budget Development
One District. One Goal. Every Child.
Before Presenting to your GO Team: Insert the School’s 2025-2030 Strategic Plan Use this form to submit the components of your plan into a form that will populate a template customized with your school’s 2025-
2030 Strategic Plan information.
See email from the GO Team Office for additional information.
Action on the
2025-2030 Strategic Plan
The GO Team needs to TAKE ACTION (vote) on its new 2025-
2030 Strategic Plan.
After the motion and a second, the GO Team may have additional discussion. Once discussion is concluded, the GO Team will vote.
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Discussion
Strategic Plan Objectives Ranking
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The GO Team ranked its Strategic Plan Objectives in preparation for the 2026-2027 Budget Development Process (January–March 2026).
The ranked objectives will serve as budget parameters during FY27 budget discussions.
2026-2027 Strategic Plan Objectives Ranking
Higher
1. New Objective ABC
2. New Objective DEF
3. New Objective GHI
4. New Objective JKL
5. New Objective MNO
6. New Objective PQR
Lower
Before Presenting to your GO Team: Insert the School’s Ranked Strategic Objectives:
**See email from GO Team Office with tools to help your GO Team rank your
objectives.**
Action on the
Strategic Plan Objectives Ranking
The GO Team needs to TAKE ACTION (vote) on its ranked Strategic Plan Objectives. After the motion and a second, the GO Team may have additional discussion. Once discussion is concluded, the GO Team will vote.
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Principals
If you would like to discuss your FY27 Budget Allocation with your GO Team insert the “Optional Budget Allocation” slides from the section at the end of the deck here and update them with your school’s information.
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What’s Next?
FY26 Budget Allocation
principal’s staffing conference
Staffing Conference and BEFORE Friday, March 13
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Questions?
Information Items
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Principal’s Report
CCRPI
Results (if not previously discussed)
Cluster Advisory Team Report (if not previously discussed)
Principal’s
Report
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Principals
Add slides as necessary to cover your school's 2025 CCRPI results with your GO Team, if you haven’t previously shared the information.
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Before Presenting to your GO Team: Insert as many slides as necessary to highlight items pertinent to your school and community as part of the principal report; or use this time to speak to items specific to your stakeholders
Cluster Advisory Team Report
Announcements
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Thank you
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FY27 Budget Development Process:
FY27 Budget Allocation
FY 27 GO Team Budget Development Process Timeline
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Step 1 Finalize Strategic Plan & Rank Objectives
Step 2 District-wide Budget Allocation Meeting
January 2026
Step 3 Principals & Assoc. Supt. Discussions
Step 4* GO Team Feedback Mtg.
Completed February 2026 (BEFORE STAFFING CONFERENCE)
Step 5 Associate Supt.
Review
Step 6 Principals HR Staffing Conferences Begin
February 23-27
Step 7* GO Team Budget Finalization Meeting
Budgets finalized by March 13th
GO Teams are encouraged to have ongoing conversations
* GO Teams will need to take ACTION on the budget at these meetings.
Budget Allocation Meeting
What
During the this GO Team meeting the principal will provide an
overview of the school's budget.
Why
This meeting provides an opportunity for the principal and GO Team to ensure alignment on the school’s key strategic priorities, gain a deeper understanding of the budget and position allocations, and gather input to drive the development of the draft budget.
When
January 2026
FY26 Budget Allocation
FY27 Budget Development Process
FY26 Budget Allocation
Principal’s Role
level
flexibility for position allocations
The GO Team’s Role
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Before Presenting to your GO Team: Insert the School’s 2025-2030 Strategic Plan Use this form to submit the components of your plan into a form
that will populate a template customized with your school’s 2025-2030 Strategic Plan information.
See email from the GO Team Office for additional information.
2026-2027 Strategic Plan Objectives Ranking
Higher
1. New Objective ABC
2. New Objective DEF
3. New Objective GHI
4. New Objective JKL
5. New Objective MNO
6. New Objective PQR
Lower
Before Presenting to your GO Team: Insert the School’s Ranked Strategic Objectives:
**See email from GO Team Office with tools to help your GO Team rank your
objectives.**
FY 27 Budget Parameters
FY26 Ranked School Priorities
Rationale
Maintain lower class sizes in the primary years by funding parapros in 1st and second grade
47% mobility rate requires a great deal of teacher attention to students who enter our school throughout the
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year – many of which are below level
aximize wrap around services ie: This continues to be a need for our Nurse, SSW, Counseling students, but we need to look closely
at maximizing our budget to make this work.
rease Reading/Lexiles and writing Data indicates that students who have
f 3rd – 5th grade students. How can been with us for more than one year we restructure our program to have greater performance levels than
achieve this? students who are transient. With 47%
of our students coming and going, there is a need to target these students.
Before Presenting to your GO
Team:
Update with Your Team's
Priorities and Rationale
o Use as many slides as necessary
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FY26 Budget Allocation
FY 27 Budget Parameters
and/or enrichment.
Utilize data to meet the Ensure that students are
individual needs of students. receiving maximized
opportunities for achievemen and remediation daily
FY26 School Priorities | Rationale | ||
Maximize the intervention block daily | Dedicated time for students to receive specific interventions | ||
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FY26 Budget Allocation
Discussion of Budget Allocation
FY26 Budget Allocation
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Executive Summary
This budget represents an investment plan for our school’s
students, employees and the community as a whole.
The budget recommendations are tied directly to the school’s
strategic vision and direction.
The proposed budget for the general operations of the school
are reflected at $
This investment plan for FY27 accommodates a student population that is projected to be students, which is a increase/decrease of students from FY26.
Before Presenting to your GO Team: Update with the Your School's Information
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School Allocation Tab Overview
The Allocation Tab has 3 tables that show the allocations for FY27, FY26, and the Change in each area. This helps you understand how our school earned funds and positions for FY27 in comparison to FY26, and how changes in each line impact our overall school budget.
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(School name) SSF Allocations
FY26 Budget Allocation
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(School name) Additional Earnings
FY26 Budget Allocation
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Where We’re Going
During our next meeting the principal will present the proposed FY27 Budget for feedback and discussion.
Let the principal or the Chair know of any additional information you need for our next discussion.
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