Process

=Process=

1) First, you need to break up into groups of five. There will be three groups of five in the class.

2) You must next assign roles. There is to be one person for each role. Role one: Department of Education Role two: Department of Transportation Role three: Department of Natural Resources Role four: Department of Treasury Role five: Employee salaries

3) Each person must research his or her own department. What is the purpose of your department? What responsibilities do you have? You must then prepare an outline of the current budget. You must then decide how to better spend money. Be detailed with your budget. As detailed as possible on the way you are spending your money. You must work with your team members to prepare a budget that will work and everyone agrees on. Using the research, determine ways that you could save your department money. Look for ways to save money without affecting the outcome of your department.

4) You must turn in a complete budget for your plan of how the state is spending money. You must also turn in a bibliography listing where you got all of your information. This should be done in the proper MLA style.

5) You also need to turn in information on how the state is currently spending money. You also need to research ways that the state could bring in more money. However, this may not be raising taxes. Come up with new ideas - at least one per department. These should be new ways of increasing the state's income. You should each come up with three ways that your individual department could save money. Your ideas should be practical and realistic.