5457
MONTGOMERY COUNTY

between fire departments and rescue squads as to response
areas, redisricting, or station locations or changes,
the fire board shall use and adopt a system of
arbitration to arrive at its recommendations to the
council and the executive.

(2) Executive Committee. The executive
committee shall have the following duties,
responsibilities and authority:

(i) Act in emergencies (nonoperational)
in the interest of the fire and rescue services and to
report such action at the next meeting of the fire board.

(ii) Establish fire and rescue response
areas subject to approval of the fire board.

(iii) Represent the fire board at
public hearings.

(iv) Review, prepare a summary, hold
hearings, and make recommendation to the board on the
annual budgets of the fire departments and rescue squads
as provided for hereafter.

(v) Perform such other duties as
delegated by the fire board.

(d) Budget and fiscal procedures.

(1)   Fiscal Year. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Code to the contrary, fire departments
and rescue squads supported in whole or in part by tax
levies for the 1970—71 fiscal year and thereafter shall
prepare annual budgets under procedures and at times as
directed by the fire board to conform to the fiscal year
of the county, July 1 to June 30.

(2)   Budgets and Distribution of Fire Tax
Revenue. Each fire department and rescue squad shall
prepare in the uniform manner prescribed by the fire
board its annual budget requirements with appropriate
justification. All budgets shall be submitted to the
fire board at the time required by the fire board. The
fire board shall prepare a separate budget for its own
proposed expenditures, which budget shall be funded by
the county and be subject to final approval of the county
council under the budget procedure.

The fire board shall forward all budgets, with
a summary and its recommendations, to the county
executive for submission to the council under budget
procedures as delineated in the Charter of Montgomery
County, Maryland. Transmittal of the budgets shall be