The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-08-15
OCALA'S CHARTER
CONTINUED from Yesterday

fixing the millage or rate of taxation
by said city for any year. the city
manager shall submit to the city
council proposed budget for said
city for such year; that said city
council shall then consider such bud
get and the anticipated expenses of
said city for such year, and shall pre-
pare detailed budget or estimate of
the expenses of said city, and all the
departments thereof, during the en-
suing year for which said millage is
to be fixed. That in the event the city
county adopts the budget of the city
manager without change, that such
budget shall be published in some
! newspaper or newspapers published
in the said city of Ocala in one issue
of such paper, which said budget
shall also contain notice of meeting
of the city council at which public
hearing of said budget will be had;
| that on the date specified in such said
publication the city council shall meet
and hear such arguments as may be
made touching upon said budget, and
shall at such meeting or as soon
thereafter as practicable adopt final
budget for said city during said en-
suing year; that in the event the city
council does not adopt the budget pre-
pared by the city manager, without
change, that then the proposed bud
get of the city manager shall be pub
lished in the same newspaper or
newspapers, and at the same time as
the publication of the proposed bud
get by the city council. That after
Lsuch public hearing the city council
shall then adopt final budget for
said city for said year, which said
final budget shall be binding upon
said city council for said ensuing
year, and no appropriation or expen-
diture of moneys shall be made in any
department in excess of the amount
allotted or allow therefor in said bua-
get; nor shall there be any transfer
of funds from one department to an
other, except as may be provided for
in said budget. That at the end of
the fiscal year, any money remaining
in any fund designated in said bud
get which shall not have been expend-
ed or appropriated, may be trans
ferred to the geenral fund, and ex-
pended as the council may see fit.
That nothing herein shall be con-
strued to apply in any way to pro-
ceeds derived from the sale of any
bonds of said city.
| Sec. 25 That wherever the words
Fiscal year" is used in this act, it
shall be construed to mean the year
commencing with the day upon which
the tax books of said city open for
collection of taxes, and ending with
the day before such day.
/ Sec 26. That any contract, appro-
priation, purchase or agreement to
expend money made or attempted to
be made by the city council, or any
official of such city for and in behalf
thereof, which said expenditure shall
exceed ninety per cent. of the esti-
mated uncollected revenues of said
city at the time in any fiscal year in
which such appropriation. contract or
! expenditure of money shall be made,
or attempted to be made, plus the en-
/ tire amount of any unappropriated
moneys in the hands of whoever has
the custody of the city's funds, shall
be absolutely, and for all purposes,
null and void; and that before each
and every contract, engagement,
voucher, check. order or other docu-
ment, calling for. representing on
agreeing to the expenditure of any
moneys of said city, shall be paid or
Il 90,
or any of the officials thereof, such in
strument shall be certified to by the
city clerk of said city as not being in
violation of this provision, and it
shall be unlawful for the city clerk to
issue any warrant or voucher mads
or ordered to be made with violates
this provision, or which is made or
contract or agreement which violates
this provision. and he shall be liable
to the city therefor, but nothing here
in shall invalidate any check or other
order of said city for the payment of
money in the hands of bona fide
holder thereof. The uncollected rev.
enues of said city at the time in any
fiscal year in which such appropria-
ton, contract or expenditure of mon
ey shall be made, or attempted to be
made, shall be estimated as follows:
4 First: The total amount of taxes
upon both real and personal property
uncollected for such year.
Second: The uncollected revenue
!. from licenses shall be estimated by
subtracting the amount of such Ii
cense taxes collected in such fiscal
Year up to such time from the total
amount of license taxes collected by
said city in the previous fiscal year.
! Third: The uncollected revenue
from the light and water plant, o,
any other public utility of said city
, shall be estimated by subtracting the
total gross receipts from such utili-
, ties in such fiscal year to the date OF
said appropriation from the gross re-
ceipts from such utilities for the isca
year next preceding the one in which