Community-Based Air Quality Monitoring Framework

4. Project Budgeting

These resources simplify budgeting of air quality monitoring projects by itemizing expenses based on personnel, equipment, travel, and administrative costs necessary to conduct an air monitoring project. They can also help estimate the funds necessary for a proposed air monitoring plan or support budget tracking for a current project.

Purpose: Create a budget for the task on your air monitoring project

Resources:

• Budgeting Tool: A spreadsheet to help prepare a budget for an air monitoring project. It includes a tab for estimating budgets. (TDEnviro, spreadsheet tool)

Common challenges that these resources help address: Without careful budgeting that considers the unique objectives of the project and the complex requirements of effective air quality monitoring, some projects could fail to meet their objectives. An appropriately scoped, itemized budget can enable project participants to determine which project partners may be needed, and to decide whether to hire personnel directly or to contract external services for various aspects of implementation, like sensor siting and operation, quality assurance, and data management.