2018 Vermont Statutes
Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters
Chapter 221 - Village Of Essex Junction
App 221-6.13 Administration of budget

§ 221-6.13. Administration of budget

(a) Work programs and allotments. At such time as the Manager shall specify, each department, office, or agency shall submit work programs for the ensuing fiscal year showing the requested allotments of its appropriation by periods within the year. The Manager shall review and authorize such allotments with or without revision as early as possible in the fiscal year. He or she may revise such allotments during the year if he or she deems it desirable and shall revise them to accord with any supplemental, emergency, reduced, or transferred appropriations made pursuant to section 6.12.

(b) Payments and obligations prohibited. No payment shall be made or obligation incurred against any allotment of appropriation except in accordance with appropriations duly made and unless the Manager or his or her designee first certifies that there is a sufficient unencumbered balance in such allotment or appropriation and that sufficient funds therefrom are or will be available to cover the claim or meet the obligation when it becomes due and payable. Any authorization of payment or incurring of obligation in violation of the provisions of this charter shall be void and any payment so made illegal; such action shall be cause for removal of any officer who knowingly authorized or made such payment or incurred such obligations, and he or she shall also be liable to the Village for any amount so paid. However, except where prohibited by law, nothing in this charter shall be construed to prevent the making or authorizing of payment or making of contracts for capital improvements to be financed wholly or partly by the issuance of bonds or to prevent the making of any contract or lease providing for payments beyond the end of the fiscal year, provided that such action is made or approved by ordinance.

(c) The provisions of subsection (b) above notwithstanding, the trustees may authorize an expenditure of funds not provided for in the approved Village budget upon determination, at a properly warned meeting of the Board of Trustees, that:

(1) The need for such expenditure could not have been anticipated at the time of approval of the Village budget; and

(2) Such expenditure is necessary to protect Village property from suffering loss or damage or to continue to provide services which the Village is obligated to provide under law; and

(3) The contingency funds available in the approved Village budget are insufficient to cover the expenditure; and

(4) The aggregate amount of all expenditures authorized under this section during a single budget year does not exceed 3% of the approved Village budget for the year. Approval of such expenditure shall require the affirmative vote of the entire Board of Trustees sitting in attendance at a regularly scheduled or special meeting and shall be set forth in a written resolution which shall be attached to the minutes of the meeting at which approval is granted. (Amended 2013, No. M-6, § 2, eff. May 20, 2013.)