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Augusta Richmond GA
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ORDINANCE NO. 5sg6
AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE DATE FOR SUBMITTAL OF
BUDGET FOR CALENDAR YEAR 1997; TO PROVIDE AN
EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Augusta-Richmond County Commission,
and it is hereby ordained by authority of the same as follows:
Section 1. Richmond County Code Section 2-158 is hereby
amended to add a new subparagraph (c), such that Section 2-158, as
amended, shall read as follows:
(a) The fiscal year of the County shall begin on the
first day of January and continue through the thirty-
first day of December.
(b) On the third Tuesday of November at the regular
meeting
of
the
County
Commission,
the
County
Administrator shall submit to the County Commission a
budget, certified by the Finance Committee, containing
the financial plan for the conduct of the affairs of the
County for the ensuing fiscal year. The budget shall be
accompanied by an explanatory message prepared in detail
by the budget officer and may include recommendations as
to capital projects to be undertaken by the County within
the ensuing fiscal year and within the five (5)
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succeeding years.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (b)
of this section, for fiscal year 1997 only, the County
Administrator shall submit to the Augusta-Richmond County
Commission a budget, certified by the Finance Committee,
containing the financial plan for the conduct of the
affairs of the County for said 1997 fiscal year on the
third Tuesday of December, 1996, at the regular meeting
of the Commission. The budget submitted shall comply
with the provisions of subparagraph (b) hereof.
Section 2. Richmond County Code Section 2-161, is hereby
amended to add a new paragraph (b), such that Section 2-161, as
amended, shall read as follows:
(a) On or before the third Tuesday in November of each
year, the Finance Committee shall submit to the County
Commission for its consideration, a proposed budget
consisting of its statement of the anticipated revenue
and expenses of the next fiscal year. Whereupon, the
County Commission shall consider the same and may revise,
amend, supplement or delete any item of anticipated
revenue or expense before the same shall be published, or
hearings held thereon. At the time of submission of the
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budget to the County Commission, a statement advising the
residents of the county of the availability of the budget
shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation
in the county. The statement shall be a prominently
displayed advertisement or news article and shall not be
placed in that section of the newspaper where legal
notices appear. The budget, as tentatively approved, and
all supporting data, shall be a public record open to
inspection by anyone and shall be filed in the office of
the county administrator and in the office of the budget
officer. The County Commission may consider the original
budget and any amendment thereto at any regular or called
meeting after its submission and shall hold at least one
(1) public hearing thereon before its final adoption,
which public hearing shall be set by the County
Commission at one of its regular or called meetings and
shall be announced in public notice to be published in
one (1) or more newspapers published in the county at
least seven (7) days prior to adoption of the permanent
budget by the County Commission, at which time any
persons wishing to be heard on the budget may appear.
Changes, increases or decreases, variations and revisions
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of any items in the budget or of any total or subtotal or
aggregate sum may be made at any public meeting prior to
the final adoption of the budget, provided such changes,
increases, transfers and revisions shall be recorded on
the minutes of the meetings and provided further the
total expenditures, .including all changes, shall at no
time exceed the total of the anticipated revenue as
finally certified by the Finance Committee to the County
Commission. The budget as finally adopted shall include
all sums necessary to pay the interest and principal
reduction or sinking fund requirements of all outstanding
bond issues, and likewise sufficient funds to meet the
requirements of the various departments of county
government to enable the various departments to perform
the duties imposed upon them by law i and the Finance
Committee shall so certify.
(b) Notwithstanding. the provisions of subparagraph (a)
of this section, for fiscal year 1997 only, the Finance
Committee shall submit to the County Commission, on the
third Tuesday of December, 1996, a proposed budget a
budget consisting of its statement of the anticipated
revenue and expenses of the 1997 fiscal year. The
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submittal of the budget, including all advertising
requirements,
shall
otherwise
comply
with
the
requirements of subparagraph (a) hereof.
Section 3.
This ordinance shall become effective
immediately upon adoption.
Section 4.
All ordinances, or parts or ordinances, in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
This ~ day of November, 1996.
First Reading: /1-,.5-96
Second Reading: //-/9- ?~
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