The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
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BUDGET PROCESS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 4, § 905)
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§ 905. Appropriation and transfers
(a) An annual budget shall be adopted at the City Meeting by the vote of a majority of
eligible voters by Australian ballot in accordance with section 401 of this charter.
If, after the total budget has been appropriated, the Council finds additional appropriations
necessary, the appropriations shall be made and reported at the next City Meeting
as a specific item. The appropriations shall only be made in special circumstances
or situations of an emergency nature. No specific explanation need be given for any
normal annual operating expense in any office, department, or agency that may be increased
over the budget amount by an amount not more than 10 percent of the office’s, department’s,
or agency’s budget.
(b) From the effective date of the budget, the amounts stated therein, as approved by
the voters, become appropriated to the several agencies and purposes therein named.
(c) The Manager may at any time transfer an unencumbered appropriation balance or portion
thereof between general classifications of expenditures within an office, department,
or agency. At the request of the Manager, the Council may, by resolution, transfer
any unencumbered appropriation balance or portion thereof within the Council budget
from one department, office, or agency to another.
(d) Notwithstanding the above, no unexpended balance in any appropriation not included
in the Council budget shall be transferred or used for any other purpose. (Added 2021, No. M-10 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. July 1, 2022.)