§ 21-18-203 — Budget procedure

(a) In collaboration with the boards of the community
colleges, the commission shall submit state appropriation
requests on behalf of the community college system in compliance
with the statewide community college system strategic plan. The
standard budget request submitted by the commission for state
aid to community colleges under W.S. 21-18-205 for the fiscal
biennium commencing July 1, 2020 and every four years
thereafter, shall be equal to the amount defined in W.S. 9-2-
1002(a)(ix). A request for an enrollment adjustment to the
standard budget for state aid to community colleges shall be
submitted every four (4) years commencing in the fiscal biennium
beginning July 1, 2018. The enrollment adjustment shall be
based solely upon the calculation under subsection (e) of this
section. The budget requests shall be made upon forms and in a
format to be determined by the state budget department.
(b) Repealed By Laws 2000, Ch. 33, § 2.
(c) To facilitate its appropriation request, the community
college commission shall hold at least one (1) budget hearing
for the community colleges.
(d) Repealed By Laws 2000, Ch. 73, § 3.
(e) An enrollment adjustment request shall be based upon
changes in annual weighted average enrollment and only for
variable costs. An enrollment adjustment request for a
percentage increase or decrease to a standard budget base amount
for annual weighted average enrollment shall be calculated as
follows:
(i) The variable cost percentage determined pursuant
to W.S. 21-18-205(c) multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of
which is the difference in the annual weighted average
enrollment for the three (3) most recent academic years and the
annual weighted average enrollment at the time of last
enrollment adjustment request submitted pursuant to this
subsection, the denominator of which is the annual weighted
average enrollment at the time of the last enrollment adjustment
request submitted pursuant to this subsection;
(ii) The standard budget enrollment adjustment
request submitted for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1,
2018 shall apply the formula in paragraph (i) of this
subsection, with the substitution of annual weighted average
enrollment for fiscal years 2013, 2014 and 2015 in lieu of the
"annual weighted average enrollment at the time of the last
enrollment adjustment request submitted pursuant to this
subsection";
(iii) Any funding increase or decrease as determined
by the state legislature shall be distributed in proportion to
the funding amounts determined in W.S. 21-18-205(c).
(f) In preparing the estimates under W.S. 9-3-210(c), the
community college commission shall submit an exception budget
request for health insurance funding needs related to the
addition of any benefitted positions created during the
preceding fiscal year at the colleges in the commission's budget
request for the subsequent fiscal year.