RCW 35.33.057
Budget message—Hearings.
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 town's next fiscal year and shall contain the following:
(1) An explanation of the budget document;
(2) An outline of the recommended financial policies and programs of the city for the ensuing fiscal year;
(3) A statement of the relation of the recommended appropriation to such policies and programs;
(4) A statement of the reason for salient changes from the previous year in appropriation and revenue items;
(5) An explanation for any recommended major changes in financial policy.
Prior to the final hearing on the budget, the legislative body or a committee thereof, shall schedule hearings on the budget or parts thereof, and may require the presence of department heads to give information regarding estimates and programs.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 95 § 7.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
35.33.020 - Applicability of chapter.
35.33.041 - Budget estimates—Classification and segregation.
35.33.051 - Budget—Preliminary.
35.33.055 - Budget—Preliminary—Filing—Copies.
35.33.057 - Budget message—Hearings.
35.33.061 - Budget—Notice of hearing on final.
35.33.071 - Budget—Final—Hearing.
35.33.075 - Budget—Final—Adoption—Appropriations.
35.33.081 - Emergency expenditures—Nondebatable emergencies.
35.33.091 - Emergency expenditures—Other emergencies—Hearing.
35.33.101 - Emergency warrants.
35.33.106 - Registered warrants—Payment.
35.33.107 - Adjustment of wages, hours, and conditions of employment.
35.33.111 - Forms—Accounting—Supervision by state.
35.33.121 - Funds—Limitations on expenditures—Transfers.
35.33.125 - Liabilities incurred in excess of budget.
35.33.131 - Funds received from sale of bonds and warrants—Expenditure program—Federal tax law.
35.33.135 - Revenue estimates—Amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes.
35.33.141 - Report of expenditures and liabilities against budget appropriations.
35.33.145 - Contingency fund—Creation—Purpose—Support—Lapse.
35.33.147 - Contingency fund—Withdrawals.