The fiscal year of the county shall begin with the first day
of January and end with the thirty-first day of December in each year.
Rockland Community College shall be governed by and follow the procedures
contained in the Education Law of the State of New York.
[Amended 7-1-2014 by L.L. No. 4-2014[1]]
It shall be the duty of the County Executive to prepare and
file the county budget for each fiscal year in accordance with the
provisions of the County Law. The County Executive shall have the
power, personally or through his or her representatives to survey
each unit for the purpose of ascertaining its budgetary requirements.
[1]
Editor’s Note: This local law was approved by the County
Legislature 8-7-2014 over the veto of the County Executive and was
approved at referendum 11-4-2014.
The head of each department, office or unit of county government
shall submit to the County Executive, in writing, an estimate of expenses
and revenues of such department, office or agency for the ensuing
fiscal year. Such estimates shall consist of proposed units of appropriation
for personal service and proposed units of appropriation for other
than personal service. Each requested unit of appropriation shall
be supported by line items showing how the total amount of such unit
is arrived at. Such estimates shall be known as departmental estimates
and shall be in such form and contain such other information as the
County Executive shall require. They shall be public records and shall
at all reasonable times be open to public inspection.
1.
On or before the first day of October in each year, the County Executive shall submit to the Clerk to the Legislature, for consideration by the County Legislature, and simultaneously submit to any other governmental entity required by local or state law to receive a copy, a proposed expense and capital budget for the ensuing fiscal year and a proposed capital program for the next six fiscal years or such other period as may be authorized by law, together with a budget message as provided in § C4.05. Upon their submission, the proposed expense and capital budgets, hereinafter called the county budget, together with the budget message, shall become public records in the office of the Clerk for distribution
2.
The proposed county budget shall be in three sections, one of which
shall set forth the estimated revenues and receipts, one of which
shall set forth the estimated expenses, and one of which shall set
forth proposed capital authorizations and expenditures. The proposed
county budget shall present the complete financial plan for the county
and its agencies for the ensuing fiscal year, setting forth proposed
expenditures and anticipated revenues, debt service, down payments
and other current capital financing and proposed borrowing, if any.
An estimate of unencumbered balances at the end of each completed
fiscal year, except when otherwise provided by law or appropriated
for a capital improvement or other authorized continuing project,
shall be treated as revenue for the county budget of the ensuing fiscal
year.
[Amended 7-1-2014 by L.L. No. 4-2014[1]]
The County Executive shall submit with the county budget a budget
message explaining the main features of the county budget, including
a general summary thereof, with such supporting schedules as he or
she may deem desirable or the Legislature may by resolution require
any information identifying and analyzing new or changed programs.
Such schedules shall exhibit the aggregate figures of the proposed
budget in such manner as to show a balanced relationship between the
total estimated expenditures and the total estimated income for the
ensuing fiscal year and shall compare these figures with the actual
receipts and expenditures for the last completed fiscal year and the
appropriations for such fiscal year. The budget message shall also
outline the existing and any proposed financial policies of the county
relating to the capital program, describing each capital improvement
proposed to be undertaken in the preceding fiscal year and not yet
completed. The budget message shall contain such additional information
or comments as the County Executive may deem appropriate.
[1]
Editor’s Note: This local law was approved by the County
Legislature 8-7-2014 over the veto of the County Executive and was
approved at referendum 11-4-2014.
The Legislature or a committee designated by it may review and
hold hearings on the proposed county budget and the budget message
and may require the attendance of the heads of units or their representatives
to produce such records and information in explanation of their departmental
estimates as the Legislature shall deem appropriate.
Not later than the twentieth day of November of each year, the
Legislature shall hold a public hearing on the proposed county budget,
the budget message submitted by the County Executive and any report
submitted by the Legislature or the committee designated by such body.
The Clerk to the Legislature shall cause to be published, in the official
newspaper of the county and such other newspapers as may be designated
by the Legislature, a notice of the place and time when such hearing
shall be held, the purpose of the public hearing, a concise summary
of the proposed county budget, and that copies of the proposed budget,
the budget message and any report submitted by the Legislature or
its committee are available at the Clerk's office and may be
inspected or procured by any interested person. At least ten days
shall elapse between the publication of such notice and the date so
specified for the hearing. At the hearing, any person may be heard,
and the hearing may be adjourned from day to day, but not later than
the twenty-first day of November.
1.
After the conclusion of the public hearing, the Legislature may strike
items of appropriation or anticipated revenue from the proposed county
budget or reduce items therein, excepting appropriations required
by law for debt service. The Legislature may add items to or increase
items in the county budget, provided that such additions or increases
are stated separately and distinctly.
2.
The county budget as changed, altered or revised shall be adopted
by resolution of the Legislature not later than the seventh day of
December. If the Legislature takes no action by December seventh,
the budget submitted by the County Executive shall be deemed to be
the adopted budget. If the county budget, as submitted by the County
Executive, is adopted by resolution of the Legislature with no changes,
it shall be deemed to have been adopted without any further action
by the County Executive. If, however, the county budget as adopted
by the Legislature contains any increases, additions, decreases or
deletions, it shall be immediately presented by the Clerk to the Legislature
to the County Executive for examination and reconsideration. If the
County Executive approves all the increases or additions and the decreases
or deletions, he or she shall affix his or her signature to a statement
thereof and return the county budget together with such statement
to the Clerk of the Legislature, and the county budget, including
the increases or additions and the decreases or deletions as part
thereof, shall then be deemed to be adopted.
3.
If the county budget, with any increases or additions and decreases
or deletions, is not returned by the County Executive to the Clerk
to the Legislature with his or her objections within five working
days after presentation by the Clerk to the Legislature, it shall
be deemed adopted, as changed, altered or revised by the Legislature.
[Amended 7-1-2014 by L.L. No. 4-2014[3]]
[3]
Editor’s Note: This local law was approved by the County
Legislature 8-7-2014 over the veto of the County Executive and was
approved at referendum 11-4-2014.
4.
If the County Executive objects to any one or more of the increases
or additions or the decreases or deletions, the County Executive shall
append to the county budget a statement of the increases or additions
or the decreases or deletions to which the County Executive objects,
setting forth the reasons therefor, and shall, not later than five
working days after receipt of the adopted budget from the Clerk to
the Legislature, return the county budget with the objections to the
Clerk to the Legislature, who shall immediately present them to the
Legislature. The Legislature shall thereupon enter the objections
upon its records and, not later than the twentieth day of December,
proceed to reconsider the increases or additions or the decreases
or deletions to which objection is made by the County Executive. If
upon such reconsideration the Legislature, by the affirmative vote
of at least two-thirds of the total voting power of the Legislature
taken to the next highest whole number, votes to approve any such
increase, addition or deletion, the county budget, with the changes
so approved, together with any changes not so objected to by the County
Executive, shall be deemed adopted. If the Legislature by such date
fails to act on or approve any such change objected to by the County
Executive, then such objections shall become final and the budget
shall be deemed adopted as resubmitted by the County Executive.
5.
If any limitation date mentioned in this Article falls on a holiday,
Saturday or Sunday, then any time limitations required herein shall
be extended to the next business day of the county.
6.
Copies of the county budget as adopted shall be certified by the
County Executive and by the Clerk of the Legislature, and such a copy
shall be filed in the offices of the County Executive and the Clerk
to the Legislature. The budget so certified shall be printed or otherwise
reproduced and copies shall be made available to the public at such
cost as the Legislature shall deem appropriate.
Immediately upon the final adoption of the budget, the Legislature
shall adopt an appropriation resolution and provide for the raising
of taxes required by such budget in the manner and within the time
prescribed by law.
1.
The County Executive may, during any fiscal year, transfer part or
all of any unit of appropriation within any department, office or
unit to another unit of appropriation within such department, office
or unit. Written notice thereof shall be given to the Legislature.
2.
The Legislature may, during any fiscal year, transfer part or all
of any unit of appropriation from one department, office or unit to
another, or transfer part or all of any unit of appropriation for
the purpose of establishing or adding to a new unit of appropriation,
or change the terms and conditions of the budget. Any such action
taken by the Legislature shall be by resolution subject to the provisions
of § C2.02 of this Charter.
[Amended 7-1-2014 by L.L. No. 4-2014[1]]
There shall be a Capital Projects Committee to consider the
necessity, priority, feasibility, location, cost and method of financing
of all proposed capital projects and to prepare at least once annually
and submit to the County Executive, not later than the first day of
June, a capital plan for the ensuing fiscal year and a proposed capital
program for the next six fiscal years. The Capital Projects Committee
shall consist of the following or their designees: the County Executive
as Chairperson; the Chairperson of the Legislature; the Superintendent
of Highways; the Commissioner of Planning; and such other persons
as the County Executive may direct to serve on such Committee.
[1]
Editor’s Note: This local law was approved by the County
Legislature 8-7-2014 over the veto of the County Executive and was
approved at referendum 11-4-2014.
