§ 6.10.030. Preparation of budget.  


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  • The director of the office of management and budget shall present to the mayor the annual budget for the ensuing fiscal year. The budget shall be based upon detailed estimates furnished by the agencies of the municipal government according to a classification as nearly uniform as possible. The budget shall present information on recommended appropriations, anticipated expenditures, estimated taxes and other revenues required to support the budget.

    The proposed annual budget submitted to the assembly shall also include, on the reconciliation worksheets, a continuation funding level for each agency, and a total continuation level for the budget comparing the ensuing year's budget to the current year's revised budget.

    The chief fiscal officer shall provide fiscal input to the preliminary stages of the budget preparation, and again when the office of management and budget consolidates agency requests. The chief fiscal officer shall provide funding certification prior to the mayor's administrative review, and upon assembly adoption the chief fiscal officer is responsible for budget execution and administration and pre-audits and post-audits.

    Municipal funds and grants which have been appropriated by the assembly to institutions and nonprofit organizations for the benefit and welfare of the public shall be controlled by conditions and regulations as may be imposed by the assembly and shall be subject to independent financial audit under the same procedures as established for municipal funds.

    The office of management and budget shall perform program evaluation.

(GAAB 9.20.060; AO No. 21-76; AO No. 79-27; AO No. 82-49; AO No. 85-8; AO No. 2002-138, § 1, 9-24-02)

Charter reference

Budget preparation and submittal to assembly, § 13.03.