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Measure M Charter Amendment/Multi-year budget City of Modesto 7,829 / 43% Yes votes ...... 10,565 / 57% No votes
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Shall the Modesto City Charter be amended to specifically
authorize the City Manager to propose, and the City Council to adopt, a
multi-year budget?
s/Michael D. Milich
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| Arguments For Measure M |
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As we enter a new millennium, it is vitally important to our community to ensure that the City Council consider and understand the potential impact of all of its decisions on the expected cash receipts and expenditures of future years. A growing number of governments around the country are beginning to think that the most effective method of changing the annual budget's short-term emphasis to a more appropriate long-term focus is to allow the preparation of a multi-year operating budget.
Under the present City Charter the City must prepare and adopt an annual operating budget. A multi-year budget will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the City's staff by freeing hundreds of hours of time that are now required every year in the preparation of an annual budget. More importantly, the very nature of an annual budgetary process tends to focus attention on short-term issues and solutions rather than the long-term financial viability of City operations. This amendment would allow, but not require, the City Manager to prepare and the City Council to adopt such a multi-year budget.
s/Richard A. Lang
(No arguments against Measure M were submitted) |
| Text for Measure M |
| CITY OF MODESTO CHARTER AMENDMENT MEASURE M
SECTION 1302. On such date in each year as shall be fixed by the Council, the City Manager shall send to the Council a careful estimate, in writing, of the amounts of expenditures required for the business and proper conduct of the various departments, offices, boards and commissions of the City, over which the City Manager has control during the next ensuing years. Said estimate shall be in such detail as the Council shall specify. The City Manager shall also at said time submit to the Council an estimate of the amount of income from fines, licenses and other sources of revenue, exclusive of taxes upon property, and the probable amount required to be levied and raised by taxation. As set forth in Section 1304, alternatively, the City Manager may propose a multi-year budget. SECTION 1304. ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET. After the conclusion of the public hearing, the Council shall further consider the proposed budget and make any revisions thereof that it may deem advisable; and thereafter it shall adopt the budget with revisions, if any. Upon final adoption, the budget shall be in effect for the ensuing fiscal year. >From the effective date of the budget, the several amounts stated therein as proposed expenditures shall be and become appropriated to the various departments or activities therein described. All appropriations shall lapse at the end of the fiscal year to the extent that they shall not have been expanded or lawfully encumbered unless they shall have been designated in the budget as continuing appropriations. At any meeting after the adoption of the budget, the Council may amend or supplement the budget by resolution. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter to the contrary, the City Manager may propose and the City Council may adopt a multi-year budget. In the event a multi-year budget is adopted, the appropriation set forth in such a budget shall not lapse until the end of the last fiscal year. Note: Any wording stricken would be deleted by this measure. |
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