The budget shall provide a complete financial plan for all municipal funds and activities for the ensuing fiscal year, and except as required by law or this Charter, shall be in such form as the Manager deems desirable or the Council may require. In organizing the budget, the Manager shall utilize the most feasible combination of expenditures classification by fund, organization unit, program, purpose or activity, and object. It shall begin with a clear general summary of its contents; shall show in detail all estimated income, including debt service, for the ensuing fiscal year; and shall be so arranged as to show comparative figures for actual and estimated income and expenditures of the current fiscal year and actual income and expenditures of the preceding fiscal year or years. It shall indicate in separate sections.
(1) Proposed expenditures for current operations during the ensuing fiscal year, detailed by offices, departments and agencies in terms of their respective work programs, and the method of financing such expenditures.
(2) Proposed capital expenditures during the ensuing fiscal year, detailed by offices, departments and agencies when practicable and the proposed method of financing each such capital expenditure; and
(3) Anticipated net surplus or deficit for the ensuing fiscal year of each utility owned or operated by the Municipality and the proposed method of its disposition; subsidiary budgets for each such utility giving detailed income and expenditure information shall be attached appendices to the budget. The total proposed expenditures shall not exceed the total estimated income.
(Adopted by electorate, May 4, 1993)