The City Budget Officer shall have the following powers and duties:
(A) To permit and encourage and establish the use of efficient planning, budgeting, auditing, reporting, accounting and other fiscal management procedures in all municipal departments, commissions and boards.
(B) To compile an annual budget in accordance with state law governing the compilation and contents of budgets (ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 8-2-9.3.).
(C) To examine all books and records of all city departments, boards, and commissions that relate to monies received by the city, its departments, boards, and commissions; and are paid out by the city, its departments, boards, and commissions; debts and accounts receivable; and amounts owed by or to the city, its departments, boards, and commissions.
(D) To obtain such additional information from the city, its departments, boards, and commissions as may be useful to the City Budget Officer for purposes of compiling a municipal budget, such information to be furnished by the city, its departments, boards, and commissions in the form required by the City Budget Officer. Any department, board, or commission that refuses to make such information as is requested of it available to the City Budget Officer, shall not be permitted to make expenditures under any subsequent budget for the city until it has complied in full with the request of the City Budget Officer.
(E) To establish and maintain such procedures as shall ensure that no expenditures are made by the city, its departments, boards, and commissions except as authorized by the budget.
(Ord. 06-39, passed 1-23-07)
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