(A) The Mayor or his designee, at least 30 days prior to the beginning of each fiscal year, shall submit to the City Council a budget and an explanatory budget message in the form and with the contents as provided in § 33.28. For this purpose, and not less than 60 days prior to the beginning of the fiscal year, he or an officer designated by him, shall obtain from the head of each office, department, or agency estimates of revenues and expenditures of that office, department, or agency, detailed by service activities within each department, the object of expenditures as defined by a chart of accounts of the city, and any other supporting data that he may request, together with a list of all new programs and capital projects pending or which the department head believes should be undertaken within the budget year, and within the next succeeding budget year.
(B) In preparing the budget, the Mayor or his designee shall review the estimates, may hold conferences with departments thereon, and may revise the estimates as he may deem advisable. He also shall obtain from the responsible officer or officers or develop on his own initiative estimates of anticipated state and federal grants and required matching funds where applicable.
(C) The proposed budget and budget message shall be a public record in the office of the City Clerk, and shall be open to public inspection by any interested party.
('83 Code, § 34.23) (Ord. O-6-82, passed 3-15-82)