Requiring Certain City Departments to Submit Budgets to Common Council

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ORDINANCE NO. 5592 -73 AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING CERTAIN CITY DEPARTMENTS TO SUBMIT BUDGETS TO COMMON COUNCIL. WHEREAS, certain bureaus of the Department of Public Works presently are not required to submit budgets to the Common Council for its approval; and WHEREAS, the Common Council desires that said bureaus shall annually submit budgets to the Council for its approval, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the City Controller (Director o the e Department of Administration and Finance) to annually prepare budgets for the next succeeding calendar year for the following bureaus of the Department of Public Works: 1. Bureau of Municipal Parking 2. Bureau of Sewers 3. Bureau of Solid Waste 4. Bureau of Water Supply 5. Bureau of Wastewater SECTION 2. Said budgets shall be presented to the Mayor for his recommendations. The budgets shall then be presented to the Common Council in ordinance form, making appropriations by items for the use of said bureaus and estimates of the revenue to be received by said bureaus, if any, and a statement of the revenues received in the last complete calendar year, if any. SECTION 3. The budgets shall be on a calendar -year basis and shall be submitted to the Common Council on or before November 1 of the preceding year. The Council shall act promptly on said budgets and shall pass the budgets on or before the last day of November of the preceding year. In the event the Council does not act on or before the last day of November, then the budgets previously passed by the �- Council shall remain in effect. The Council shall have the power to reduce said budgets but may not increase them unless recommended by the Mayor. SECTION 4. Any person violating this ordinance shall be guilty 01 a misdemeanor and shall be subject to imprisonment in the County Jail for a period not in excess of six (6) months, or be subject to a fine not in excess of Five Hundred and 00 /100 ..� Dollars ($500.00), or both, and said person may be subject to removal from office. SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Common Council, approval by the Mayor and legal publication.