Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
City Attorney Reviews Charter Sections on Budget, Appropriations, Audits and Elections
Summary
City Attorney Bernadette Norris Weeks summarized several sections of the city charter covering annual budget adoption, fiscal year dates, supplemental appropriations and elections, and noted areas staff may recommend updating — including whether budgets should be adopted by ordinance or by resolution.
Bernadette Norris Weeks, city attorney, led the Charter Review Board through chapters of the Opelika city charter that address municipal finance, recordkeeping and elections, summarizing sections 4.5 through 5.1 and flagging language staff may recommend for revision.
Weeks said the charter "requires that each annual budget adopted by the commission has to be, in accordance with Florida law," and noted the charter specifies that the commission must adopt an annual budget by ordinance "on or before the September of each year" because the city's fiscal year runs to Sept. 30. She told the board the fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.
Weeks summarized the charter's provisions on…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
