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Charter Amendment Resolution Number 1969-6
Resolution Number 166

Resolution of the City of Greenbelt adopted pursuant to the author-
ity of Article HE of the Constitution of Maryland and Section 13 of
Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition as
amended) title "Corporation-Municipal," subtitle, "Home Rule," to
amend the Charter of the City of Greenbelt, said charter being Section
40 of Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1963
Edition) and containing in whole or in part the Charter of the City
of Greenbelt, by repealing Section 40-48, title "Budget; Scope," Section
40-50, title "Same; Preparation, Adoption," and enacting new Section
40-49 title "Budget Message," new Section 40-49A, title "Budget,"
New Section 40-50, title "Council Action on Budget" to provide a
procedure for the submission of the budget by the City Manager at or
before the first council meeting in April of each year and an outline
of the contents of the budget, to further provide for a public hearing
on the budget and to require council adoption of the budget with or
without amendment by the council on or before the tenth day of June
of each year.

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED AND ORDAINED by the Council of
the City of Greenbelt, Maryland that the Charter of the City of Greenbelt,
said Charter being Section 40 of Article 17 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1963 Edition) and containing in whole or in part the
Charter of the City of Greenbelt, Maryland, shall be amended by repealing
Section 40-48, title "Budget; Scope," Section 40-49, title "Same; Docu-
ment," and Section 40-50, title "Same; Preparation, Adoption," and enact-
ing new Section 40-48, title "Submission of Budget," new Section 40-49,
title "Budget Message," new Section 40-49A title "Budget," new Section
40-50, title "Council Action on Budget" as follows:

[10 18. Budget; scope

The budget for the city government shall present a complete financial
plan for the ensuing fiscal year. It shall set forth all proposed expendi-
tures for the administration, operation, and maintenance of all offices and
agencies of the city government for which appropriations are required
to be made or taxes levied by city government, all expenditures for capital
projects to be undertaken or executed during the fiscal year; all interest

and debt redemption charges during the fiscal year; and the actual or

estimated operating deficits from prior fiscal years. In addition thereto

the budget shall set forth the anticiated income and other means of

financing the total proposed expenditures of the city governments for the
fiscal year.]

[10 19] Same; document

The budget document, presenting a financial plan for the city govern-

ment as outlined in the preceding section, shall consist of three parts,

as follows:

Part I shall contain (1) a budget message prepared by the Manager

which shall outline a fiscal policy for the city government, describing

therein the important features of the budget with reference both to pro-
posed expenditures and anticipated income; (2) a general budget summary
with a few supporting schedules, which shall exhibit the aggregate figures
of the budget in such manner as to show a balanced relation between the
total proposed expenditures and the total anticipated income for the