15.2-2507 - Amendment of budget.
§ 15.2-2507. Amendment of budget.
A. Any locality may amend its budget to adjust the aggregate amount to beappropriated during the current fiscal year as shown in the currently adoptedbudget as prescribed by § 15.2-2504. However, any such amendment whichexceeds one percent of the total expenditures shown in the currently adoptedbudget must be accomplished by publishing a notice of a meeting and a publichearing once in a newspaper having general circulation in that locality atleast seven days prior to the meeting date. The notice shall state thegoverning body's intent to amend the budget and include a brief synopsis ofthe proposed budget amendment. Any local governing body may adopt suchamendment at the advertised meeting, after first providing a public hearingduring such meeting on the proposed budget amendments.
B. Pursuant to the requirements of §§ 15.2-1609.1, 15.2-1609.7, 15.2-1636.8,and 15.2-1636.13 through 15.2-1636.17 every county and city shall appropriateas part of its annual budget or in amendments thereto amounts for salaries,expenses and other allowances for its constitutional officers that are notless than those established for such offices in the locality by theCompensation Board pursuant to applicable law or, in the event of an appealpursuant to § 15.2-1636.9, by the circuit court in accordance with theprovisions of that section.
(1983, c. 319, § 15.1-162.1; 1984, c. 523; 1997, cc. 587, 602; 2007, c. 297.)