[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Brookhaven 6-15-2010 by L.L. No.
29-2010, effective 1-1-2011. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Capital budget system — See Ch. 18.
It is the intent of the Town Board to ensure fiscal responsibility
by limiting the operating budget expenditures. Therefore, it is the
intent of this chapter to limit the annual increases in the Town-Wide
General Fund expenditures in an amount not greater than the three-year
average of revenue growth, plus the three-year average population
growth rate.
When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The percentage change in population in the Town of Brookhaven
in one fiscal year as compared to the population in the Town of Brookhaven
in the immediately preceding fiscal year as reported in the Long Island
Power Authority (LIPA) population survey.
Excluding any application of surplus, the percentage change
in actual revenue in the Town-Wide General Fund in one fiscal year
as compared to the actual revenue in the Town-Wide General Fund in
the immediately preceding fiscal year.
The total dollar amount of expenditures in the annual adopted
operating budget for the Town-Wide General Fund shall not increase
above the total dollar amount of expenditures in the most recent adopted
operating budget for the Town-Wide General Fund by more than the three-year
average of revenue growth rate plus the three-year average population
growth rate for the three previous completed fiscal years. When the
calculated growth rate is less than 0%, adopted expenditures shall
not exceed expenditures in the most recent adopted budget. For the
purposes of this section, the most recent adopted budget shall include
any revisions adopted via Town Board resolution.
A.
In any year where revenues collected, excluding the application of
surplus, exceed expenditures, the excess revenues shall be deposited
in the following manner:
(1)
If the Town is not in compliance with the adopted Fund Balance Policy,
then excess revenues shall be applied to the reserve fund of the Town-Wide
General Fund until the Town is in compliance with the adopted Fund
Balance Policy.
(2)
If the Town is in compliance with the adopted Fund Balance Policy,
then excess revenues shall be allocated as follows:
(a)
Forty percent shall be deposited into the Town-Wide General
Fund.
(b)
Twenty percent shall be deposited into the Joseph Macchia Environmental
Preservation Capital Reserve Fund.
(c)
Ten percent shall be deposited into the Solid Waste Management
Reserve Fund.
(d)
Ten percent shall be deposited into the Motor Vehicle Reserve
Fund.
(e)
Ten percent shall be deposited into the Snow Reserve Fund.
(f)
Ten percent shall be deposited into the Capital Projects Reserve
Fund.
It is the Town Board's express intent and purpose, pursuant
to § 10(1)(ii)(d)(3) of the Municipal Home Rule Law, and
§ 10 of the Statute of Local Governments, to supersede New
York State Town Law § 63, to the extent necessary, by requiring
an affirmative vote of 3/4 of the Town Board as provided under this
chapter.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this chapter
shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,
such judgment shall not impair or invalidate the remainder hereof,
but such adjudication shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
sentence, paragraph or section directly involved in the controversy
in which judgment shall have been rendered.