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County board revises budget process code to require committee review, preserves supervisors' ability to amend
Summary
The board approved an ordinance (No. 71) updating county code section 4.05 to formalize committee review of departmental budgets and to preserve supervisors' right to present amendments during the county board budget deliberation. The measure passed after an amendment was approved.
The Manitowoc County Board approved an ordinance (No. 71) repealing and recreating county code section 4.05 on budget development, adoption and amendment. The ordinance, as amended, received a recorded vote the clerk announced as 20–1 with four absent.
Supervisor Behnke moved an amendment to delete subsection g — which would have required supervisors to present proposed amendments first to the appropriate oversight committee and required prior notice to the finance director and corporation counsel — and replace it with language…
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