On or before the first regularly scheduled Council meeting in June of each year, the Director of Finance shall submit to the Council a tax budget for the ensuing fiscal year. For that purpose, the Director of Finance shall obtain from the director of each department or agency of the City government, plans for the work to be undertaken by such department during the next fiscal year, together with estimates of the cost of performing such work. The Department of Finance shall supply estimates of available revenue. From these data, the Director of Finance shall prepare the consolidated estimates for the annual tax budget. The Council shall consider these estimates, revise and adopt them, with or without amendments, as the tax budget of the City for the ensuing year, and transmit them, on or before the 15th day of July to the County Budget Commission, in the form required by Ohio law.
(Amended 11-7-00; 11-6-01; 11-5-19)