§ 5.02. Submission of proposed budget and budget message.

At least two months prior to the beginning of the fiscal year, the city manager shall submit to the city council a proposed balanced budget and additional recommendations of needs of the city for the ensuing fiscal year and an accompanying message. Without prior city council approval, the city manager's proposed general fund component of the budget shall not be increased by greater than three percent of the approved general fund component of the budget for the prior year, or the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, U.S. City Average, all items 1967=100, or successor reports for the preceding calendar year as initially reported by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, whichever is greater. Nothing herein shall prohibit the city council from adopting a budget in excess of this limitation, so long as the approved budget is otherwise in accordance with law.

(Ord. No. 1232-86, exhibit A, § 10, 10-14-86; Ord. No. 2013-36, exh. A, 11-26-13)

State law reference

Expenditures not to exceed revenues, F.S. § 166.241.