2007 Rules of Order

Section 4.00: Budget

4.01 TENTATIVE BUDGET:

The County Executive shall, on or before the date set forth in the Charter or established by Local Law revising same, submit thirty five (35) copies of the tentative budget to the Legislature. The Finance & Management/Budget Committee is hereby designated to receive and study the tentative budget and to report thereon. The Chair of the Finance & Management/Budget Committee shall present such tentative budget to the Finance & Management/Budget Committee for its consideration. The Finance & Management/Budget Committee shall hold such meetings thereon as it may determine, and may require any officer or employee of the county or the head of any county department, bureau, office, board or commission, or of any organization receiving financial aid from the county, to appear before the committee for the purpose of furnishing any information required by the committee in its consideration of the tentative budget. After such consideration, the Finance & Management/Budget Committee shall approve such tentative budget as originally prepared or with such amendments or changes therein as the committee may determine, and shall submit such tentative budget, together with its report thereon, to the Legislature not later than the first Tuesday of December in each year. The report of the Finance & Management/Budget Committee shall be submitted to the Legislature and lay on the table forty eight (48) hours prior to the Annual Meeting established by Section 2608 of the Charter.

Budget amendments proposed less than forty eight (48) hours prior to the Annual Meeting shall be considered and voted on as described in Section 4.04. Such amendments less than forty eight (48) hours prior to the Annual Meeting shall be limited to special or essential items for which information was not available in time to meet the forty eight (48) hour requirement.

4.02 ANNUAL MEETING FOR THE ADOPTION OF BUDGET:

The Annual Meeting for the adoption of the Budget and for the levying of taxes for all county and town purposes prescribed by law shall be held pursuant to Section 2608 of the Charter.

4.03 LEVY OF SCHOOL TAXES:

The annual levy of school taxes pursuant to the Erie County Tax Act, as amended, shall be made at the regular meeting held on the first Thursday of September in each year.

4.04 ADOPTION OF BUDGET:

On or before the first Tuesday of December, following the submission of the tentative budget, the budget shall be the first order of business following consideration of the Minutes. Upon conclusion of the consideration of the budget, as provided in the Charter and Code, the motion to adopt the budget, either with amendments thereto, if any, to make the necessary appropriations therefore, and to levy and spread taxes shall then be the next order of business.

Any amendments to the Finance & Management/Budget Committee Report, which are proposed less than forty eight (48) hours prior to the annual meeting prescribed by the County Charter, Section 2608, for adoption of a budget, shall be considered, justified and voted on in accordance with the Erie County Charter and Code.