§ 5.06. City council action.

The city council shall adopt a balanced budget. The city council shall publish in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the city the places and times where hearings on the budget and capital program will be held. After such public hearings the city council may adopt the budget with or without amendment, provided that the total authorized expenditures shall not be greater than the total anticipated funds for any fiscal year. If the budget is not adopted by the city council before the first day of any fiscal year, the amounts appropriated for current operations for the current fiscal year shall be deemed adopted for the ensuing fiscal year on a month-to-month basis until such time as the city council adopts a budget for the ensuing fiscal year. The budget shall be adopted in the form of an ordinance and shall constitute appropriation of the amounts specified therein as expenditures of the funds indicated.

(Ord. No. 1232-86, exhibit A, § 12, 10-14-86; Ord. No. 99-3, § 2, 1-26-99)

State law reference

Mandatory procedure for adoption of budget, F.S. § 200.065.