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Committee recommends moving budget deadline, setting amendment cutoff and creating budget SOP
Summary
A council-led review recommended moving the city's budget-adoption date earlier, establishing a council amendment deadline and standards, exploring a charter referendum for a limited default-budget mechanism, and creating standardized question protocols and a shared Q&A tool to improve transparency and timeliness.
The Budget and Finance Committee reviewed findings from a targeted review of Allentown’s budget process and advanced several recommendations for council consideration, including changes that would require legal or charter actions and procedural actions the council could adopt by rule.
Council person Bender summarized survey results and the committee’s recommendations: "Our recommendation based on all of the information that we've gotten to date would be to move this to the first Wednesday in December," Bender said, arguing that an earlier adoption date would create more time for substantive back-and-forth between council and the…
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