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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: June 30, 2004 Charter Updates; Category 2 Items; Chapter 7 Revision—Draft 7 Page5 of 7 citizens a reasonable opportunity to be heard. The Council may revise the proposed budget but no amendment to the budget shall increase the authorized expenditures to an amount greater than the estimated income. and reserves. The Council shall adopt the budget by a resolution that shall set forth the total for each budgeted fund and each department with such segregation as to the source of revenues (taxes, special assessments, licenses &permits, intergovernmental, charges for services, fines & forfeits, investment earnings, miscellaneous, transfers, and sale of debt) and character of expenditures (wages & benefits, supplies, contractual services, pital outlay, debt service,depreciation, and transfers) and others as the Council deems necessary for consideration doses of the budget easel. The Council shall also adopt a resolution levying the amount of taxes provided in the budget, and the Clerk-Administrator shall certify the tax resolution to the County Auditor in accordance with state law. Adoption of the budget resolution shall constitute appropriations at the beginning of the fiscal year of the sums fixed in the resolution of the several purposes named. Subdivision 2. "`least two weeks bBefore the budget is adopted for the ensuing fiscal year,a summary shall be given in the official City newspaper,the City Newsletter, and, if available,the City website, in draft form, ofthe budget. as specified by MN Statute 275.065, as amended, before the public hearing. Such summary shall be set fimth i language designed tbe readily understood by the layperson, and shall provide appropriate supporting information as to the necessity for any increase in the budget over the total for the current fiscal year,but failure to provide the specified summary will not invalidate the budget. The final City Council adopted budget will be published in the official City newspaper, the City newsletter and, if available, the City website in accordance with truth in taxation state statutes or no later than 60 days after adoption by the Council. Subdivision 3. If the Council fails to adopt the budget by the beginning of the next fiscal year,the preceding months fiscal year budget shall go in to effect for an additional thirty-one Q1) days or until the Council adopts a budget, whichever is shorter. Section 7.07. Enforcement of the Budget. The City Council shall strictly enforce stfie the provisions of the budget. It shall be the duty of the Clerk-Administrator to strictly enforce the detail provisions of the budget. Each Department head, or other staff, shall be responsible for budgetary control at the source of revenues and character of expenditure level'. This is to insure that each expenditure is necessary and justified and subject to Council review. The Clerk Administrator shall identify department heads or other staff who shall be responsible for each fund or department in the annual budget. These individuals shall be responsible for compliance with the annual budget, as amended, and for all expenditures for their departments and funds. It They shall not authorize any payment or the incurring of any obligation by the City,unless an appropriation has been made in the budget resolution, and there is a sufficient unexpended balance after deducting the total past expenditures and Such source of revenues and character of expenditures shall include the group of line items City of Mounds View