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Assembly budget staff outline how appropriations, categories and transfers work
Summary
Assembly budget staff and the Office of Management and Budget reviewed the municipality's budget mechanics — what an appropriation is, how categories and cost centers relate, and when the assembly or the mayor may move funds — during a one-hour work session.
The assembly’s budget analyst and the Office of Management and Budget framed the basic rules that govern the municipal budget and how the assembly and mayor can move money during a work session on municipal budgeting. Matt Greeno, the assembly budget program and budget analyst, briefed members on charter and code provisions and timing requirements for the annual budget and supplemental appropriations.
Greeno said an appropriation is “an authority to spend money,” and explained that appropriations give a department its budget while expense categories inside an…
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