[Amended 11-4-2008 by L.L. No. 10-2008]
The Mayor may, upon receipt of the departmental estimates, direct
the Commissioner of Finance to proceed to make such review and investigation
of the estimates and conduct such hearings of department heads, officers,
employees, boards or commissions as he or she deems necessary. He
or she may require any agency, or any officer or employee, to furnish
data and information and to answer inquiries pertinent to such review
or investigation. He or she shall perform such other duties in connection
with the preparation of the budget as the Mayor may direct. He or
she shall then report his or her recommendations regarding the departmental
estimates to the Mayor. All fiscally dependent agencies shall submit
their proposed budget to the Mayor and to the City Council's Budget
Committee not later than March 1st of each year. He or she shall submit
to the City Council's Budget Committee a copy of the departmental
estimates by January 15th of each year.
Not later than the 15th day of April of each year, the Mayor
shall submit to the City Council, by filing with the City Clerk and
with the City Council Budget Committee, a proposed budget for the
ensuing fiscal year for both current and capital purposes, together
with all documents required by the Special Local Finance and Budget
Act of 1976 and other state laws.
The proposed budget shall be filed with the City Council by
filing with the City Clerk, City Council President and with the City
Council Budget Committee with sufficient copies for all council members
and staff. The budget filed with the City Council shall be open to
inspection by any person during business hours under conditions prescribed
by the City Council. Copies shall also be filed with each public library
in Yonkers.
As soon as possible after the Mayor's proposed budget has been
filed with the City Clerk, the City Clerk shall cause to be published
a notice, at the direction of the City Council, of the time and place
for a public hearing on the budget. At such hearing, any person may
be heard on the proposed budget in accordance with any rules that
may be established by the City Council. The City Council may conduct
its own review of the proposed budget, and each City department and
fiscally dependent agency shall fully cooperate with said review and
provide the most current financial data available.
When the budget shall have been finally adopted by appropriate
legislative action of the City Council, taxes for the ensuing fiscal
year shall be levied as soon as possible thereafter but in no event
later than June 30 of each year. The City Council shall levy, assess
and cause to be raised by tax upon real property liable therefor the
amount of taxes necessary and in the manner provided for the levy
of city taxes.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law
to the contrary, no officer, department, board, commission or other
spending agency shall, during any fiscal year, expend or contract
to expend any money or incur any liability or enter into any contract
which by its terms involves the expenditure of money, for any purpose
in excess of the amount appropriated for that general classification
of expenditure in the appropriation for such fiscal year or in supplementary
appropriation as hereinafter provided, or in excess of funds made
available therefor, pursuant to the local finance law. Any contract,
verbal or written made in violation of this section shall be null
and void.
The City Council, during a fiscal year, may make additional
appropriations or increase existing appropriations to meet emergencies
or unforeseen circumstances requiring action to protect the interest
of the city and its citizens, the funds therefor to be provided from
unappropriated revenues, if any, or made available pursuant to the
Special Local Finance and Budget Law.
Section 73 through and including Section 77 of the Second Class
Cities Law and all local laws and ordinances now in effect are superseded
to the extent modified only by the provisions of this chapter, and
except as so superseded, the provisions of the said Second Class Cities
Law and all the local laws and ordinances of the City of Yonkers shall
continue in full force and effect in this application to the City
of Yonkers.