Town of Dennis, MA Article VI Annual Budget

[Adopted 5-3-1994 ATM, Art. 17[1]]

[1] Editor's Note: This bylaw shall cease to be effective on 7-1-1996.

§ 19-7 Printed form of annual budget.

No funds shall be expended by the town for the purpose of printing for use at an Annual Town Meeting any publication entitled, "Recommendations of the Finance Committee on the Articles in the Town Warrant (as Dated)," or of similar title which contains an article providing for the annual appropriation of funds for the operating expenses of the town for a coming fiscal year, unless the printed recommendations of such article is provided to the voters in accordance with the following format:

A. Each item category for which an appropriation amount is to be requested or recommended shall be listed in numbered lines in groups by department in the same fashion as followed in 1993, except that line item amounts (if any) shall be appropriately printed in five columns of numbers, each being totaled at the bottom, as follows:

(1) The fifth, (rightmost column) shall be entitled, "FY (affected fiscal year) FinCom recommended," and it shall include on each line that amount of money that is recommended by the Finance Committee (FinCom) for that line item as of the date of printing.

(2) The fourth, (second column from the right) shall be entitled, "FY (affected fiscal year) Select Board Members Requests," and it shall include on each line that amount of money that is initially requested as part of the formal budget printing as submitted to the FinCom prior to the beginning of its public deliberation, for that line item.

[Amended 10-3-2020 STM by Art. 12]

(3) The third column shall be entitled, "FY (appropriate fiscal year) Adopted Appropriations," and it shall include on each line that amount of money that was voted by the town the previous year, for that line item.

(4) The second column shall be entitled, "FY (appropriate fiscal year) Actual Expenditures," and it shall include on each line that amount of money that was actually expended by the town for the most recent fiscal year that has ended, for that line item.

(5) The first column from the left shall be entitled, "FY (appropriate fiscal year) Actual Expenditures," and it shall include on each line that amount of money that was actually expended by the town for the second recent fiscal year that has ended, for that line item.