[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township of Livingston
11-5-1979 as Ch. 11 of the 1979 Revised General Ordinances. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
During the month of November in each year, the Manager shall require
all department heads to submit requests for appropriations for the ensuing
budget year. The requests of the department heads shall include such cost
studies and analyses as are required by the Manager. The department heads
shall appear before him at public hearings, which shall be held during that
month, on the various requests.
A.
Upon the basis of the departmental requests, the budget
hearings, his analysis of the needs and resources of the Township, and such
policy guides as may be prescribed by resolution of the Council, the Manager
shall prepare his recommended budget in the form required by general law for
municipal budgets.
The budget message shall consist of such explanatory comments, exhibits
and schedules concerning the budget as the Manager may deem desirable, together
with:
A.
An outline of the proposed financial policies for the
ensuing budget year, including explanations of the important features of the
budget and of any major changes in policy;
B.
An analysis of revenue and costs, and of work performance
contemplated by the budget, so far as appropriate units of measurement may
have been developed and installed;
C.
A statement of pending capital projects and proposed
new capital projects, relating the amounts required for capital purposes to
the down payments and other expenditures financed from current appropriations
and to the amount of bonds to be issued during the budget year; and
D.
A capital program of proposed capital projects for the
budget year and the next five years, which may be prepared by the Planning
Board, together with his comments thereon and estimates of cost prepared by
the Department of Public Works.
A.
The Manager shall control the expenditure programs of
each department through the application of work programs and periodic allotments
of budgeted appropriations. No department shall incur any expenditure in excess
of the amount so allotted.
B.
Whenever it shall appear to the Manager that the amount
appropriated for any department or for any purpose within a department is
in excess of the amount required to be expended to provide the quantity and
quality of services authorized by the budget, the Manager may, by administrative
order with the approval of the Council, reduce the amount available for expenditure
by any department during the remainder of any year.
