The Senate Budget Policies Committee discussed Pitt’s salary appeals policy and the role of Planning and Budgeting Committees under the University’s new budget model, Budget ReSTART, at its first meeting of the spring semester.

Pitt will transition from its current incremental budget process to a new model called Budget ReSTART in fiscal year 2023, which begins July 1. But some shared governance leaders have concerns about the process used to develop the new budget model.