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To amend City Code ? 12-12, concerning the form of budget submitted to Council, for the purpose of modifying the information required to be included within the budget.
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THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:
? 1. That section 12-12 of the Code of the City of Richmond (2020) be and hereby is amended as follows:
Sec. 12-12. Form of budget submitted to Council.
(a) Pursuant to Section 6.04 of the Charter, the form of the budget submitted by the Mayor shall be as required by the Council in this section. The operating budget shall set forth (i) a description of the fund, agency, program, subprogram, and activity for all proposed expenditures for the fiscal year, (ii) the amounts of salaries, fringe benefits and other operating expenses for each program and (iii) for all budget items in the non-departmental budget, the information required by subsection (a) of Section 12-14. The operating budget shall include a summary of a zero-based budgeting analysis for each proposed budget item that includes, at a minimum, the work-load measures and cost factors used to arrive at the proposed appropriation for that proposed budget item. The operating budget shall identify each program and subprogram within each proposed budget item; however, identification of a subprogram is not required when the entire program of which a subprogram is a part is included in the proposed budget item.
(b) The operating budget also shall include the following information, for the entire City Administration, for the previous two fiscal years and for the current and proposed fiscal years:
(1) A summary of the proposed budget by program and subprogram by agency;
(2) A summary of expenditures by agency, program, and subprogram;
(3) Target service level and performance measures for each program and subprogram; [and]
(4) Total expenditures by agency by fund[.];
(5) A budget query tool. For purposes of this subdivision, the term "budget query tool" ...
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