During the month of November in each year, the Manager shall require
all department heads to submit requests for appropriations for the ensuing
budget year. The requests of the department heads shall include such cost
studies and analyses as are required by the Manager. The department heads
shall appear before him at public hearings, which shall be held during that
month, on the various requests.
The budget message shall consist of such explanatory comments, exhibits
and schedules concerning the budget as the Manager may deem desirable, together
with:
A. An outline of the proposed financial policies for the
ensuing budget year, including explanations of the important features of the
budget and of any major changes in policy;
B. An analysis of revenue and costs, and of work performance
contemplated by the budget, so far as appropriate units of measurement may
have been developed and installed;
C. A statement of pending capital projects and proposed
new capital projects, relating the amounts required for capital purposes to
the down payments and other expenditures financed from current appropriations
and to the amount of bonds to be issued during the budget year; and
D. A capital program of proposed capital projects for the
budget year and the next five years, which may be prepared by the Planning
Board, together with his comments thereon and estimates of cost prepared by
the Department of Public Works.