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WA Rev Code § 35.33.131 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.33 - Budgets in Second and Third-Class Cities, Towns, and First-Class Cities Under Three Hundred Thousand.|35.33.131 - Funds received from sale of bonds and warrants—Expenditure program—Federal tax law.

RCW 35.33.131 Funds received from sale of bonds and warrants—Expenditure program—Federal tax law.Moneys received from the sale of bonds or warrants must be used for no other purpose than that for which they were issued. If any unexpended fund balance remains from the proceeds realized from the bonds or warrants after the accomplishment of the purpose for which they were issued it must be used for the payment of principal of or interest on such indebtedness consistent with applicable provisions of federal tax law. Where a budget contains an expenditure program to be partially or wholly financed from a bond issue to be authorized thereafter, expenditures of amounts anticipated to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the issuance and sale of such bonds must be made or incurred consistent with any applicable federal tax law requirements.[ 2011 c 210 § 2; 1969 ex.s. c 95 § 19.]NOTES:Application to previously issued bonds—2011 c 210: See note following RCW 39.46.040.
WA Rev Code § 35.33.135 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.33 - Budgets in Second and Third-Class Cities, Towns, and First-Class Cities Under Three Hundred Thousand.|35.33.135 - Revenue estimates—Amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes.

RCW 35.33.135 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 each year, the chief administrative officer shall provide the city's or town's legislative body with current information on estimates of revenues from all sources as adopted in the budget for the current year, together with estimates submitted by the clerk under RCW 35.33.051. The city's or town's legislative body and the city's or town's administrative officer or his or her designated representative shall consider the city's or town's total anticipated financial requirements for the ensuing fiscal year, and the legislative body shall determine and fix by ordinance the amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes. Upon adoption of the ordinance fixing the amount of ad valorem taxes to be levied, the clerk shall certify the same to the board of county commissioners as required by RCW 84.52.020.[ 2009 c 549 § 2069; 1969 ex.s. c 95 § 20.]
WA Rev Code § 35.33.141 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.33 - Budgets in Second and Third-Class Cities, Towns, and First-Class Cities Under Three Hundred Thousand.|35.33.141 - Report of expenditures and liabilities against budget appropriations.

RCW 35.33.141 Report of expenditures and liabilities against budget appropriations.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 to the city's or town's legislative body and chief administrative officer a report showing the expenditures and liabilities against each separate budget appropriation incurred during the preceding reporting period and like information for the whole of the current fiscal year to the first day of the current reporting period together with the unexpended balance of each appropriation. The report shall also show the receipts from all sources.[ 1969 ex.s. c 95 § 21.]
WA Rev Code § 35.33.145 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.33 - Budgets in Second and Third-Class Cities, Towns, and First-Class Cities Under Three Hundred Thousand.|35.33.145 - Contingency fund—Creation—Purpose—Support—Lapse.

RCW 35.33.145 Contingency fund—Creation—Purpose—Support—Lapse.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 of which could not have been foreseen or reasonably evaluated at the time of adopting the annual budget, or from which to provide moneys for those emergencies described in RCW 35.33.081 and 35.33.091. Such fund may be supported by a budget appropriation from any tax or other revenue source not restricted in use by law, or also may be supported by a transfer from other unexpended or decreased funds made available by ordinance as set forth in RCW 35.33.121: PROVIDED, That the total amount accumulated in such fund at any time shall not exceed the equivalent of thirty-seven and one-half cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation of property within the city or town at such time. Any moneys in the contingency fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not lapse except upon reappropriation by the council to another fund in the adoption of a subsequent budget.[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 21; 1969 ex.s. c 95 § 22.]NOTES:Severability—Effective dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
WA Rev Code § 35.33.147 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.33 - Budgets in Second and Third-Class Cities, Towns, and First-Class Cities Under Three Hundred Thousand.|35.33.147 - Contingency fund—Withdrawals.

RCW 35.33.147 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 legislative body of the city or town, adopted by a majority vote of the entire legislative body, clearly stating the facts constituting the reason for the withdrawal or the emergency as the case may be, specifying the fund to which the withdrawn money shall be transferred.[ 1969 ex.s. c 95 § 23.]
WA Rev Code § 35.33.151 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.33 - Budgets in Second and Third-Class Cities, Towns, and First-Class Cities Under Three Hundred Thousand.|35.33.151 - Unexpended appropriations.

RCW 35.33.151 Unexpended appropriations.All appropriations in any current operating fund shall lapse at the end of each fiscal year: PROVIDED, That this shall not prevent payments in the following year upon uncompleted programs or improvements in progress or on orders subsequently filled or claims subsequently billed for the purchase of material, equipment and supplies or for personal or contractual services not completed or furnished by the end of the fiscal year, all of which have been properly budgeted and contracted for prior to the close of such fiscal year but furnished or completed in due course thereafter.All appropriations in a special fund authorized by ordinance or by state law to be used only for the purpose or purposes therein specified, including any cumulative reserve funds lawfully established in specific or general terms for any municipal purpose or purposes, or a contingency fund as authorized by RCW 35.33.145, shall not lapse, but shall be carried forward from year to year until fully expended or the purpose has been accomplished or abandoned, without necessity of reappropriation.The accounts for budgetary control for each fiscal year shall be kept open for twenty days after the close of such fiscal year for the purpose of paying and recording claims for indebtedness incurred during such fiscal year; any claim presented after the twentieth day following the close of the fiscal year shall be paid from appropriations lawfully provided for the ensuing period, including those made available by provisions of this section, and shall be recorded in the accounts for the ensuing fiscal year.[ 1969 ex.s. c 95 § 24.]
WA Rev Code § 35.33.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.33 - Budgets in Second and Third-Class Cities, Towns, and First-Class Cities Under Three Hundred Thousand.|35.33.170 - Violations and penalties.

RCW 35.33.170 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, to perform any duty imposed upon such officer or employee by this chapter, or city charter or city or town ordinance, in connection with the giving of notice, the preparing and filing of estimates of revenues or expenditures or other information required for preparing a budget report in the time and manner required, or of knowingly making expenditures in excess of budget appropriations, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for each separate violation.[ 2009 c 549 § 2070; 1969 ex.s. c 95 § 25.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.010 - Legislative intent.

RCW 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 provide adequate opportunities for public input and sufficient time for deliberation and enactment by the legislative authority. The legislature also recognizes that there are limited amounts of time available and that time committed for budgetary action reduces opportunities for deliberating other issues. It is, therefore, the intent of the legislature to authorize cities and towns to establish by ordinance a biennial budget and to provide the means for modification of such budget. This chapter and chapter 35A.34 RCW shall be known as the municipal biennial budget act.[ 1985 c 175 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.020 - Application of chapter.

RCW 35.34.020 Application of chapter.This chapter applies to all cities of the first and second classes and to all towns, that have by ordinance adopted this chapter authorizing the adoption of a fiscal biennium budget.[ 1997 c 361 § 15; 1985 c 175 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.030 - Definitions.

RCW 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 finance or budget director, comptroller, auditor, or by whatever title the officer may be known in any city or town. However, for cities over three hundred thousand, "clerk" means the budget director as authorized under RCW 35.32A.020.(2) "Department" includes each office, division, service, system, or institution of the city or town for which no other statutory or charter provision is made for budgeting and accounting procedures or controls.(3) "Legislative body" includes the council, commission, or any other group of officials serving as the legislative body of a city or town.(4) "Chief administrative officer" includes the mayor of cities or towns having a mayor-council form of government, the commissioners in cities or towns having a commission form of government, the manager, or any other city or town official designated by the charter or ordinances of such city or town under the plan of government governing the same, or the budget or finance officer designated by the mayor, manager, or commissioners, to perform the functions, or portions thereof, contemplated by this chapter.(5) "Fiscal biennium" means the period from January 1 of each odd-numbered year through December 31 of the next succeeding even-numbered year.(6) "Fund" and "funds" where clearly used to indicate the plural of "fund" means the budgeting or accounting entity authorized to provide a sum of money for specified activities or purposes.(7) "Funds" where not used to indicate the plural of "fund" means money in hand or available for expenditure or payment of a debt or obligation.(8) Except as otherwise defined in this chapter, municipal accounting terms used in this chapter have the meaning prescribed by the state auditor pursuant to RCW 43.09.200.[ 1985 c 175 § 6.]NOTES:"Fiscal biennium" defined: RCW 1.16.020.
WA Rev Code § 35.34.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.040 - Biennial budget authorized—Limitations.

RCW 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 least six months prior to commencement of the fiscal biennium and this chapter applies to all cities and towns which utilize a fiscal biennium budget. Cities and towns which establish a fiscal biennium budget are authorized to repeal such ordinance and provide for reversion to a fiscal year budget. The ordinance may only be repealed effective as of the conclusion of a fiscal biennium. However, the city or town shall comply with chapter 35.32A or 35.33 RCW, whichever the case may be, in developing and adopting the budget for the first fiscal year following repeal of the ordinance.[ 1994 c 81 § 56; 1985 c 175 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.050 - Budget estimates—Submittal.

RCW 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 other time as the city or town may provide by ordinance or charter, the clerk shall notify in writing the head of each department of a city or town to file with the clerk within fourteen days of the receipt of such notification, detailed estimates of the probable revenue from sources other than ad valorem taxation and of all expenditures required by the department for the ensuing fiscal biennium. The notice shall be accompanied by the proper forms provided by the clerk, prepared in accordance with the requirements and classification established by the state auditor. The clerk shall prepare the estimates for interest and debt redemption requirements and all other estimates, the preparation of which falls properly within the duties of the clerk's office. The chief administrative officers of the city or town shall submit to the clerk detailed estimates of all expenditures proposed to be financed from the proceeds of bonds or warrants not yet authorized, together with a statement of the proposed method of financing them. In the absence or disability of the official or person regularly in charge of a department, the duties required by this section shall devolve upon the person next in charge of such department.[ 1995 c 301 § 43; 1985 c 175 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.060 - Budget estimates—Classification and segregation.

RCW 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 according to a standard classification of accounts to be adopted and prescribed by the state auditor after consultation with the Washington finance officers association, the association of Washington cities, and the association of Washington city managers.[ 1995 c 301 § 44; 1985 c 175 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.070 - Proposed preliminary budget.

RCW 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 such other time as the city or town may provide by ordinance or charter, the clerk or other person designated by the charter, by ordinances, or by the chief administrative officer of the city or town shall submit to the chief administrative officer a proposed preliminary budget which shall set forth the complete financial program of the city or town for the ensuing fiscal biennium, showing the expenditure program requested by each department and the sources of revenue by which each such program is proposed to be financed.The revenue section shall set forth in comparative and tabular form for each fund the actual receipts for the last completed fiscal biennium, the estimated receipts for the current fiscal biennium, and the estimated receipts for the ensuing fiscal biennium, which shall include the amount to be raised from ad valorem taxes and unencumbered fund balances estimated to be available at the close of the current fiscal biennium. However, if the city or town was not utilizing a fiscal biennium budget for the previous three years, it shall set forth its fiscal years' revenues to reflect actual and estimated receipts as if it had previously utilized a biennial budgetary process.The expenditure section shall set forth in comparative and tabular form for each fund and every department operating within each fund the actual expenditures for the last completed fiscal biennium, the appropriations for the current fiscal biennium, and the estimated expenditures for the ensuing fiscal biennium. However, if the city or town was not utilizing a fiscal biennium budget for the previous three years, it shall set forth its fiscal years' expenditures to reflect actual and estimated levels as if it had previously utilized a biennial budgetary process. The expenditure section shall further set forth separately the salary or salary range for each office, position, or job classification together with the title or position designation thereof. However, salaries may be set out in total amounts under each department if a detailed schedule of such salaries and positions be attached and made a part of the budget document.[ 1985 c 175 § 10.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.080 - Preliminary budget.

RCW 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 by such chief administrative officer. At least sixty days before the beginning of the city's or town's next fiscal biennium the chief administrative officer shall file it with the clerk as the recommendation of the chief administrative officer for the final budget. The clerk shall provide a sufficient number of copies of such preliminary budget and budget message to meet the reasonable demands of taxpayers therefor and have them available for distribution not later than six weeks before the beginning of the city's or town's next fiscal biennium.[ 1985 c 175 § 11.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.090 - Budget message—Hearings.

RCW 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 submitted as a part of the preliminary budget to the city's or town's legislative body at least sixty days before the beginning of the city's or town's next fiscal biennium and shall contain the following:(a) An explanation of the budget document;(b) An outline of the recommended financial policies and programs of the city or town for the ensuing fiscal biennium;(c) A statement of the relation of the recommended appropriation to such policies and programs;(d) A statement of the reason for salient changes from the previous biennium in appropriation and revenue items; and(e) An explanation for any recommended major changes in financial policy.(2) Prior to the final hearing on the budget, the legislative body or a committee thereof shall schedule hearings on the budget or parts thereof, and may require the presence of department heads to give information regarding estimates and programs.[ 1985 c 175 § 12.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.100 - Budget—Notice of hearing.

RCW 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 that the preliminary budget for the ensuing fiscal biennium has been filed with the clerk, that a copy thereof will be made available to any taxpayer who will call at the clerk's office therefor, that the legislative body of the city or town will meet on or before the first Monday of the month next preceding the beginning of the ensuing fiscal biennium for the purpose of fixing the final budget, designating the date, time, and place of the legislative budget meeting, and that any taxpayer may appear thereat and be heard for or against any part of the budget. The publication of the notice shall be made in the official newspaper of the city or town if there is one, otherwise in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or town. If there is no newspaper of general circulation in the city or town, then notice may be made by posting in three public places fixed by ordinance as the official places for posting the city's or town's official notices.[ 1985 c 175 § 13.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.110 - Budget—Hearing.

RCW 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 at the time and place designated in the notice thereof. Any taxpayer may appear and be heard for or against any part of the budget. The hearing may be continued from day to day but not later than the twenty-fifth day prior to commencement of the city's or town's fiscal biennium.[ 1985 c 175 § 14.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.120 - Budget—Adoption.

RCW 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 deems necessary or proper and, after determining the allowance in each item, department, classification, and fund, shall by ordinance adopt the budget in its final form and content. Appropriations shall be limited to the total estimated revenues contained therein including the amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes and the unencumbered fund balances estimated to be available at the close of the current fiscal biennium. Such ordinances may adopt the final budget by reference. However, the ordinance adopting the budget shall set forth in summary form the totals of estimated revenues and appropriations for each separate fund and the aggregate totals for all such funds combined.A complete copy of the final budget as adopted shall be transmitted to the state auditor and to the association of Washington cities.[ 1995 c 301 § 45; 1985 c 175 § 15.]