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Good morning,

Currently, our school has a budget for IT that includes hardware and software for all 3 divisions (lower, middle and upper schools). When someone needs software or hardware, they have to come to IT to manage this process. I would like each division to be given a budget based on the devices, number of students, etc. Additionally, I would like to retain the general hardware/software budgets that everyone uses: networking, SIS, LMS, Internet, phones, etc.).  Does anyone have a budget model that you would like to share. I also would love to get to a way to predict the cost per student/staff for IT (by division as well). As we add more students, this would help with managing the amounts needed to sustain the current services with more people.  

Donna -

We have our budget split several ways, as you suggest. We have accounts for whole school items which we use for school wide items. We also have divisional technology budgets which is used for those items only needed by each of the divisions.  We also maintain a budget line item for each division for consumable materials as well.

While we also are a part of the approval process so we can vet privacy policies and terms of service, we also offload the items which are used by specific departmental budgets.

This results in us managing 15 different budget codes within the scope of technology, but allows us to better understand our spending.