Lamar_WCPlan_Applic

• Water Efficiency Grant Type: Water Conservation Planning Grant
• Contract/PO #: OE PDA 08-20
• Applicant: City of Lamar
• Project Name: City of Lamar Water Conservation Plan
• Title: Grant Application for City of Lamar
• Date: 8/1/2007
• County: Prowers
• Water Efficiency - Doc Type: Approval Letter

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Charter - Finance Administration - Section 11-2

in recognition of the operating privilege and for
the use of general City facilities and benefits
both within and without the corporate limits.
(Ord. No. 873-A passed at Nov. 7, 1989 elec~
tion)

Sec. 11-3. The budget messages.

The budget messages shall contain "the rec-
ommendations of the City Council concerning
the fiscal policy of the City, and the recommen-
dations of the Utilities Board concerning the fis-
cal policy of the Utilities Board; description of
the important features of the budget plans;
explanations of all major increases or decreases
in budget recommendations as compared with
prior years, and summaries of the proposed
budgets showing comparisons similar to those
required in the budget proper, itemized by prin-
cipal sources of revenue and the main items of
expenditures; and estimate of the cash surplus in
each fund at the end of the current fiscal year, or
of the deficit in each fund to be made up by
appropriation, and the balance between the total
estimated expenditure and the total anticipated
revenues from all sources, taking into account
the estimated surpluses or deficits in the various
funds.

Sec. 11..4. Public hearings.

A public hearing on the proposed budget
shall b€: held at and by a joint meeting of the
Council and Board on a date prior to October 15
and at a place to be fixed by the Council. Coun-
cil shall cause notice of the time and place of
such h(:aring to be published one time at least
five days prior to the hearing. Copies of the
propos(:d budget shall be made available for use
of the public.

After conclusion of such public hearing, the
Board as to the utilities budget, and Council as
to the remainder of the budget, may insert new
items of expenditure or may increase, decrease
or strik,e out items of expenditure, except that no
item budgeted for debt service or transfer to the
general fund shall be reduced.

If the Board shall decrease the total proposed
expenditures in the utilities budget, such
decrease may be reflected in the full proposed
revenue. If Board shall increase the total pro-
posed expenditures in the utilities budget, such
increase may be reflected in the utilities rates or
by appropriate changes in other revenues.

If Council shall decrease the total propose:d
expenditures in the remainder of the budget,
such decrease shall be reflected in the full pro-
posed revenue. If Council shall increase the
total proposed expenditures in thle remainder of
the budget, such increase shall be reflected in the
tax levy or by appropriate changes in other revle-
nues.

Sec. 11-5. Scope of annual budget.

The budget adopted by Council shall contain:

(a) An estimate of anticipated revenue
from all sources other than the tax levy for
the ensuing year;

(b) An estimate of the general fund cash
surplus at the end of the current fiscal year,
or of the deficit to be made up by appropria-
tion;

(c) The estimated expenditures neces-
sary for the operation of the several depart-
ments, offices, and agencies under jurisdic-
tion of the Council;

(d) Debt service requirements for the
ensuing fiscal year;

(e) An estimate of the sum required to
be raised by the tax levy for the ensuing fis-
cal year, and the rate of levy necessary to
produce such sum based on the percentage of
collection, not exceeding the lowest percent-
age of current levy collection experienced
during the three preceding complete fiscal
years;

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