[Ord. No. 02-032 §§1—4, 3-28-2002; Ord. No. 02-074 §1, 5-29-2002]
A.
The
Department of Finance shall provide budget estimate forms to each
department, elected official, the Circuit Court or other appropriate
entity of the County by August fifteenth (15th) of each year. Each
department, elected official, the Circuit Court, or other appropriate
entity of the County shall prepare and submit to the County Executive
by September fifteenth (15th) of the same year, estimates of its requirements
for expenditures and its estimated revenues for the next budget year.
B.
If
any department, elected official, the Circuit Court or other entity
responsible for submitting budget estimates to the County fails to
return its budget estimates on or before September fifteenth (15th)
of each year to the County Department of Finance, the County Executive
shall make the estimates, and his estimates shall be considered the
estimates of the department, elected official, the Circuit Court or
other appropriate entity of the County, as provided for by Section
50.540, RSMo.
C.
The
estimates so submitted by the departments, elected officials, the
Circuit Court, Circuit Clerk or other entity responsible for submitting
a budget shall be reviewed and altered, revised, increased or decreased
as necessary in view of the total financial needs of the County and
the probable income for the year; however the budget officer or the
County Council shall not change the estimates of the Circuit Court
or of the Circuit Clerk without the consent of the Circuit Court or
the Circuit Clerk, respectively, but shall appropriate in the appropriation
ordinance the amounts estimated as originally submitted or as changed,
with their consent. If the County deems the estimates of the Circuit
Court to be unreasonable, the County may file a petition for review
with the Judicial Finance Commission in accordance with Section 50.640
of the Revised Statutes of Missouri.
D.
Pursuant
to Article VI, Section 6.201 of the St. Charles County Charter, the
budget will be submitted to the County Council on or before the first
(1st) day of November, 2002.
