Vermont § 28 - Budget appropriation and assessment
Full text of Vermont Vermont Statutes Online § 28 — Budget appropriation and assessment, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 28. Budget appropriation and assessment
- (a) Proposed budget. (1) Annually on or before January 1, the Board shall approve and cause to be distributed
to the legislative body of each member for review and comment an annual report of
its activities, including a financial statement, the budget history of the preceding
two years, a proposed budget of the Authority for the next fiscal year, and a budget
projection for the two successive years. The Board may appoint a budget committee
to develop the proposed budget. (2) The Board shall hold a public hearing on or before February 1 of each year to receive
comments from the legislative bodies of the members and hear all other interested
persons regarding the proposed budget. Additional public hearings may be held if the
Board deems it appropriate to do so. Notice of such hearing(s) shall be as provided
in sections 39-41 of this chapter, except that for additional public hearings, the
time requirements of section 39 shall be reduced by 15 days, and notice(s) need only
be published once. (3) The Board shall give consideration to all comments received and make such changes
to the proposed budget as it deems advisable. (b) Budget adoption, appropriations, and assessment. Annually on or before January 1, the Board shall approve the budget. (1) At the Town Meeting Day elections, the voters of each member shall vote on appropriating
the total sums necessary to operate and carry out the Authority’s functions for the
next ensuing fiscal year. Ballot totals from the members shall be totaled together,
and the cumulative total will be used to determine passage of the budget. (2) Once a budget is approved, the Board shall assess each member for its proportionate
share of the sums so appropriated, less revenues anticipated from the members, and
adopt a schedule designating when such assessments are due and payable by the members. (3) The members shall include the Authority’s assessment as a separate line item on the
annual property tax bills so as to appropriate such sums as the member is apportioned,
once voted as described in section 29 of this chapter. (Added 2013, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)
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