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Council reviews city-code rules for budget amendments and requests police cost-per-officer breakdown
Summary
City staff reviewed City Code Chapter 2 (budgetary procedure), an SOP for budget revisions, and thresholds for line-item transfers; council members asked staff for cost-per-officer data and discussed salary-savings projections.
City staff briefed the Tuscaloosa City Council on the city's budget-amendment rules in City Code Chapter 2, Article 3, and on an internal standard operating procedure (SOP) that governs line-item transfers and budget revisions.
A staff member summarized the rules the council must follow to amend the budget and the internal approvals required. "Budget amendments, except as a loan or a line item transfer, an appropriation may not be altered nor expenditure made that is not appropriated in a budget or amendment thereto," the staff member read from the code. The…
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