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RESOLUTION NO. 2016- 33
A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING THE CITY'S FINANCE
DIRECTOR AS THE BUDGET OFFICER PER ORS 294.3319
AND REPEALING RESOLUTION NO. 2012-31
RECITALS:
A. The City of Ashland follows the Oregon Local Budget Law, ORS 294, in preparing its
budget. ORS 294.331 requires the governing body to designate one person to act as the
Budget Officer.
B. The Budget Officer is responsible for publishing all of the notices required by Local Budget
Law. The Budget Officer is also responsible for monitoring budget expenditures during the
budget year and notifying the governing body of the need to make any budget changes
required after adoption.
C. For some time prior to October 2012, the designated Budget Officer for the City was its
Finance Director.
D. In October 2012, the City Council passed and the Mayor signed Resolution No. 2012-31,
designating the then-Interim City Administrator as the City's Budget Officer.
E. The City Council now wishes to designate the City's Finance Director as the Budget Officer
for the City of Ashland.
THE CITY RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Budget Officer, acting under the direction of the executive officer, shall
prepare or supervise the preparation of the budget document. The Budget Officer must present a
balanced budget to the budget committee. To be in balance, the resources in each fund must be
equal to the expenditures and other requirements in that fund. The estimates of resources and
expenditures must be made in "good faith". That is, they should be reasonable and reasonably
likely to prove correct, based upon known facts at the time.
SECTION 3. With this resolution, Council designates the City Finance Director (or the person
serving as Interim City Finance Director) as the Budget Officer.
SECTION 4. This resolution takes effect upon signing by the Mayor.
This resolution was duly PASSED and ADOPTED THIS a o day of 2016,
and to es effect upon signing by the Mayor.
Barbara Christensen, City Recorder
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SIGNED and APPROVED this U day of Lc.~2r~.1~t-l , 2016.
Jo Stromberg, Mayor
Reviewed as to form:
avid Lohman, City Attorney
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