Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 35 Cities And Towns - Chapter 35.34 Biennial Budgets

35.34.010 Legislative intent
The legislature hereby recognizes that the development and adoption of a budget by a city or town is a lengthy and intense process designed to ...

35.34.020 Application of chapter
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35.34.030 Definitions
Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Clerk" includes the officer performing the functions of a ...

35.34.040 Biennial budget authorized -- Limitations
All first and second class cities and towns are authorized to establish by ordinance a two-year fiscal biennium budget. The ordinance shall be enacted at ...

35.34.050 Budget estimates -- Submittal
On or before the second Monday of the fourth month prior to the beginning of the city's or town's next fiscal biennium, or at such ...

35.34.060 Budget estimates -- Classification and segregation
All estimates of receipts and expenditures for the ensuing fiscal biennium shall be fully detailed in the biennial budget and shall be classified and segregated ...

35.34.070 Proposed preliminary budget
On or before the first business day in the third month prior to the beginning of the biennium of a city or town or at ...

35.34.080 Preliminary budget
The chief administrative officer shall prepare the preliminary budget in detail, making any revisions or additions to the reports of the department heads deemed advisable ...

35.34.090 Budget message -- Hearings
(1) In every city or town, a budget message prepared by or under the direction of the city's or town's chief administrative officer shall be ...

35.34.100 Budget -- Notice of hearing
Immediately following the filing of the preliminary budget with the clerk, the clerk shall publish a notice once a week for two consecutive weeks stating ...

35.34.110 Budget -- Hearing
The legislative body shall meet on the day fixed by RCW 35.34.100 for the purpose of fixing the final budget of the city or town ...

35.34.120 Budget -- Adoption
Following conclusion of the hearing, and prior to the beginning of the fiscal biennium, the legislative body shall make such adjustments and changes as it ...

35.34.130 Budget -- Mid-biennial review and modification
The legislative authority of a city or town having adopted the provisions of this chapter shall provide by ordinance for a mid-biennial review and modification ...

35.34.140 Emergency expenditures -- Nondebatable emergencies
Upon the happening of any emergency caused by violence of nature, casualty, riot, insurrection, war, or other unanticipated occurrence requiring the immediate preservation of order ...

35.34.150 Emergency expenditures -- Other emergencies -- Hearing
If a public emergency which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of filing the preliminary budget requires the expenditure of money not ...

35.34.160 Emergency expenditures -- Warrants -- Payment
All expenditures for emergency purposes as provided in this chapter shall be paid by warrants from any available money in the fund properly chargeable with ...

35.34.170 Registered warrants -- Payment
In adopting the final budget for any fiscal biennium, the legislative body shall appropriate from estimated revenue sources available, a sufficient amount to pay the ...

35.34.180 Adjustment of wages, hours, and conditions of employment
Notwithstanding the appropriations for any salary or salary range of any employee or employees adopted in a final budget, the legislative body of any city ...

35.34.190 Forms -- Accounting -- Supervision by state
The state auditor is empowered to make and install the forms and classifications required by this chapter to define what expenditures are chargeable to each ...

35.34.200 Funds -- Limitations on expenditures -- Transfers and adjustments
(1) The expenditures as classified and itemized in the final budget shall constitute the city's or town's appropriations for the ensuing fiscal biennium. Unless otherwise ...

35.34.205 Administration, oversight, or supervision of utility -- Reimbursement from utility budget authorized
Whenever any city or town apportions a percentage of the city manager's, administrator's, or supervisor's time, or the time of other management or general government ...

35.34.210 Liabilities incurred in excess of budget
Liabilities incurred by any officer or employee of the city or town in excess of any budget appropriations shall not be a liability of the ...

35.34.220 Funds received from sales of bonds and warrants -- Expenditures
Moneys received from the sale of bonds or warrants shall be used for no other purpose than that for which they were issued and no ...

35.34.230 Revenue estimates -- Amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes
At a time fixed by the city's or town's ordinance or city charter, not later than the first Monday in October of the second year ...

35.34.240 Funds -- Quarterly report of status
At such intervals as may be required by city charter or city or town ordinance, however, being not less than quarterly, the clerk shall submit ...

35.34.250 Contingency fund -- Creation
Every city or town may create and maintain a contingency fund to provide moneys with which to meet any municipal expense, the necessity or extent ...

35.34.260 Contingency fund -- Withdrawals
No money shall be withdrawn from the contingency fund except by transfer to the appropriate operating fund authorized by a resolution or ordinance of the ...

35.34.270 Unexpended appropriations
All appropriations in any current operating fund shall lapse at the end of each fiscal biennium. However, this shall not prevent payments in the following ...

35.34.280 Violations and penalties
Upon the conviction of any city or town official, department head, or other city or town employee of knowingly failing, or refusing, without just cause, ...