A clear, visual guide to your district’s budget
Turn your adopted SACS budget data into a custom booklet your board, staff, and community can readily understand. Gobo handles the design and production, keeping the workload for your fiscal team minimal. Most guides are completed within two weeks.
Make Your Budget Easier to Share
Board-ready clarity
Present key revenues, expenditures, reserves, and projections in an accessible format.
Community understanding
Explain where funding comes from, how it is used, and what is shaping the district’s financial outlook.
Save staff time
Receive a polished booklet and shareable PDF without creating the materials internally.
How It Works
- Send us your adopted budget data
- Review your Budget Guide proof
- Receive the completed guide
What’s Included
Each guide is custom-branded to your district and covers the essentials:
- District & Revenue Overview: A big-picture look at where funding originates.
- Expenditures & General Fund: A clear breakdown of how dollars reach students.
- Other Funds & Multi-Year Projects: Context for long-term investments and capital projects.
- Budget Drivers: Explaining the “why” behind your current financial position.
- How to Get Involved: Encouraging constructive community engagement.
Digital or Printed
While the digital Guide is perfect for your website and board packets, we also offer professional printing. Having a high-quality, physical booklet to hand to a skeptical community member or a local partner is a powerful way to demonstrate transparency.
Interested? Let us Know.