The Advisory Council on Strategic Budgeting and Planning serves a primary advisory role for the university budgeting and planning process. It reports jointly to the President and the University Council. Areas for consideration include: monitoring the university planning and budgeting processes; participating in and advising on the development of biennial budgets, the formulation of the university plan, and the development of university capital and facilities plans, and the reconciliation of the plan and the available resources; consulting on other budget and planning matters; and addressing matters of policy relative to budget and planning and appropriate for governance consideration and, in such instances, making recommendations to the University Council.