§ 10.2. Budget procedures.

The City Manager shall prepare and submit to the Council on or before the first regular meeting in April of each year a recommended budget covering the next fiscal year, and shall include therein at least the following information:

1.

Detailed estimates with his supporting explanations of all proposed expenditures for each department, office, and agency of the City showing the expenditures for corresponding items for the last preceding fiscal year in full, and for the current fiscal year to February first, and estimated expenditures for the balance of the current fiscal year;

2.

Statements of the bonded and other indebtedness of the City showing the debt redemption and interest requirements, the debt authorized and unissued, and the condition of sinking funds, if any;

3.

Detailed estimates of all anticipated revenues of the City from sources other than taxes with a comparative statement of the amounts received by the City from each of the same or similar sources for the last preceding fiscal year in full and for the current fiscal year to February first, and estimated revenues for the balance of the current fiscal year;

4.

A statement of the estimated balance or deficit at the end of the current fiscal year;

5.

An estimate of the amount of money to be raised from current and delinquent taxes, and the amount to be raised from bond issues which, together with any available unappropriated surplus at [of] any revenues from other sources, will be necessary to meet the proposed expenditures;

6.

Such other supporting information as the Council may request.

State law reference

Uniform budgeting and accounting act, MCL 141.421 et seq.; mandatory that Charter provide for conformity with uniform system of accounts, MCL 117.3(n).