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 Long Beach
 City Charter
 Article XVII. FINANCE

  § 1704. AMENDMENT OF THE BUDGET.  

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  • The City Council may amend the preliminary budget and shall adopt such preliminary or amended preliminary budget as the budget for the forthcoming fiscal year, and shall not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the end of the current fiscal year pass an appropriation ordinance conforming thereto. If the City Council fails to adopt a budget and appropriation ordinance by the time prescribed herein, the City Manager's recommended budget shall be deemed to be the budget adopted by the City Council and appropriation expenditures shall be made in accordance therewith.

    The budget and appropriations ordinance as adopted by the City Council (including the City's budgets for which the City Manager is not administratively responsible) shall be immediately transmitted to the Mayor upon whose approval and signature they shall become effective. If the Mayor shall fail to act upon the budget and appropriations ordinance within five (5) calendar days after its adoption by the City Council, it shall thereupon become effective. If the Mayor disapproves of any expenditure, the Mayor may reduce or eliminate that item, and shall within the same five (5) calendar day period return the budget and the appropriations ordinance to the City Council with a statement of action taken.

    Upon receipt by the City Council of the budget veto message from the Mayor, the City Council shall have until the end of the fiscal year within which to override the action of the Mayor by a vote of two-thirds ( 2/3 ) of its members.

    Upon the commencement of the fiscal year, the budget and appropriations ordinance as returned by the Mayor, and to the extent modified thereafter by the City Council, shall become the budget and appropriations ordinance for the ensuing fiscal year.

(Amended by Prop. A, 5-1-2007, eff. 5-22-2007)