SEC. 9.103. ADOPTION OF APPROPRIATION ORDINANCES.
§ 9.103
The Board of Supervisors may modify the Mayor's proposed biennial budget by reducing revenue estimates, adjusting individual fund expenditures (within limits set by the Mayor's total), and adjusting capital improvement spending.
The Board of Supervisors can make changes to the Mayor's two-year budget plan. They can lower the expected income if the Controller's analysis supports it. They can move money around between different spending categories in each fund, but the total they spend from any fund cannot exceed what the Mayor originally proposed. They can also increase or decrease spending on capital improvements (big construction or equipment projects).
- Complex:The section uses nested conditional language and cross-references to 'the Mayor's proposed' amounts, making it easy to misunderstand the constraints on the Board's amendment authority.
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Official text
The Board of Supervisors may amend the proposed biennial budget and appropriation ordinances as follows:
1. After review of the Controller's analysis of the Mayor's revenue estimates, the Board of Supervisors may reduce estimated revenues;
2. The Board of Supervisors may increase or decrease any proposed expenditure in the General Fund or any special, sequestered or other fund so long as the aggregate changes do not cause the expenditures from each fund to exceed the amount proposed for expenditures by the Mayor from any such fund; and
3. The Board of Supervisors may increase or decrease any proposed expenditure for Capital Improvements.
(Amended by Proposition A, Approved 11/5/2009)