19-11-11 - Contents and approval of final budget.
§ 19-11-11. Contents and approval of final budget.
(1) The budget as finally determined, in addition to setting out separately each general item of expenditure for which appropriations are to be made and the fund out of which the same is to be paid, shall set out the total amount to be expended from each fund, the anticipated working cash balance in the fund at the close of the present fiscal year, the estimated amount, if any, which shall accrue to the fund from sources other than taxation for the new fiscal year, and the amount necessary to be raised for each fund by tax levy during such fiscal year, and the working cash balance which the board determines necessary for the next fiscal year. The board of supervisors, not later than September 15th, shall then, by resolution, approve and adopt the budget as finally determined, and enter the same at length and in detail in its official minutes, and in like manner the said board shall enter the budget of estimated expenses for the county department of education which shall have been prepared and presented to the board by the county superintendent of education as provided by law.
(2) The board of supervisors shall not adopt a budget that reduces the county budget by more than twenty percent (20%) in the last year of the members' term of office if a majority of the members of the board are not reelected.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 9118-09; Laws, 1950; Laws, 1985, ch. 514, § 6; Laws, 1986, ch. 350, § 2; Laws, 2005, ch. 334, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 2005.