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 […]
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.]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
RCW 35.34.130 Budget—Mid-biennial review and modification. The legislative authority of a city or town having adopted the provisions of this chapter shall provide by ordinance for a mid-biennial review and modification of the biennial budget. The ordinance shall provide that such review and modification shall occur no sooner than eight months after the start nor […]
RCW 35.34.140 Emergency expenditures—Nondebatable emergencies. Upon the happening of any emergency caused by violence of nature, casualty, riot, insurrection, war, or other unanticipated occurrence requiring the immediate preservation of order or public health, or for the property which has been damaged or destroyed by accident, or for public relief from calamity, or in settlement of […]
RCW 35.34.150 Emergency expenditures—Other emergencies—Hearing. If a public emergency which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of filing the preliminary budget requires the expenditure of money not provided for in the budget, and if it is not one of the emergencies specifically enumerated in RCW 35.34.140, the city or town legislative body […]
RCW 35.34.160 Emergency expenditures—Warrants—Payment. All expenditures for emergency purposes as provided in this chapter shall be paid by warrants from any available money in the fund properly chargeable with such expenditures. If, at any time, there is insufficient money on hand in a fund with which to pay such warrants as presented, the warrants shall […]
RCW 35.34.170 Registered warrants—Payment. In adopting the final budget for any fiscal biennium, the legislative body shall appropriate from estimated revenue sources available, a sufficient amount to pay the principal and interest on all outstanding registered warrants issued since the adoption of the last preceding budget except those issued and identified as revenue warrants and […]
RCW 35.34.180 Adjustment of wages, hours, and conditions of employment. Notwithstanding the appropriations for any salary or salary range of any employee or employees adopted in a final budget, the legislative body of any city or town may, by ordinance, change the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of any or all of its appointive […]
RCW 35.34.190 Forms—Accounting—Supervision by state. The state auditor is empowered to make and install the forms and classifications required by this chapter to define what expenditures are chargeable to each budget class and to establish the accounting and cost systems necessary to secure accurate budget information. [ 1995 c 301 § 47; 1985 c 175 […]
RCW 35.34.200 Funds—Limitations on expenditures—Transfers and adjustments. (1) The expenditures as classified and itemized in the final budget shall constitute the city’s or town’s appropriations for the ensuing fiscal biennium. Unless otherwise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, and subject to further limitations imposed by ordinance of the city or town, the expenditure of […]
