LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2021
RESOLUTION: R-21-142
PURPOSE: Relative to the adoption of the Fiscal Year 2022 proposed
budget for the City of Nashua general, enterprise, and special
revenue funds
SPONSOR(S): Mayor Jim Donchess
COMMITTEE
ASSIGNMENT: Budget Review Committee
FISCAL NOTE: The tax rate cannot be determined at this time, however estimates
will be provided. The entire budget is a comprehensive package
and each component impacts the tax rate.
ANALYSIS
This resolution adopts the Fiscal Year 2022 Budget for the City’s general, enterprise, and special
revenue funds. For the purpose of Section 50-a et seq. of the Nashua Revised City Charter, as
amended, each item of this budget shall be considered as a separate appropriation.
A public hearing on the budget shall be held before its adoption by the board of aldermen with at
least seven days’ notice. Nashua City Charter $ 56-a; NRO § 5-8.
Nashua City Charter § 56-b provides that the board of aldermen may reduce any item in the
mayor's budget by a majority vote, but an increase or addition requires a vote of two-thirds of
the members of the board. Court decisions concerning Nashua’s Charter suggest that a court
may find that this provision, when applied to the budget resolution itself, is inconsistent with
state statutes and therefore unenforceable. See memorandum of Corporation Counsel dated
March 8, 2018.
The budget shall be finally adopted not later than August |, 2021. Nashua City Charter § 56-b.
Approved as to content, Financial Services Division
account structure, numbers,
and amount: By: _/s/John Griffin
Approved as to form: Office of Corporation Counsel
By:
Date: 1 Maw. ar
