Mission: The mission of
the Budget Office is to assure maximum acquisition and optimum use of the California State
University, Hayward budget, campuswide and at the department level, in a professional and
timely manner.
Activities: Budget Acquisition, Budget
Allocation, Budget Administration, Reporting and Advising, Policy Interpretation,
Education and Outreach
The Budget: The budget
for the University is comprised of three major categories: personal services, operating
expense and equipment, and revenues. Personal services includes salaries and wages and
staff benefits. Staff benefits includes OASDI (social security), Retirement, Health and
Welfare, Dental Care Insurance, Vision Care, Life Insurance, Medicare, Long-Term
Disability, Flexcash, Industrial Disability Leave (IDL), Non-industrial Disability Leave
(NDI), Unemployment Compensation, and Workers Compensation.
Operating expense is the budgetary term used to include such items as supplies and
services, printing, travel, contractual services, and all other non-equipment goods or
services. Equipment includes support equipment, instructional replacement equipment,
computing equipment, and telephone equipment.
Revenue, the third category of the budget, is that portion of the budget which the
University must generate locally, as opposed to being state support. It includes state
university fees, application fees, non-resident fees, and miscellaneous fees (library
fines, sale of catalogs to the bookstore, late fees, etc.).
