LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2022
RESOLUTION: R-22-035
PURPOSE: Relative to the adoption of the Fiscal Year 2023 proposed
budget for the City of Nashua general, enterprise, special
revenue, and grant funds
SPONSORIS): Mayor Jim Donchess
COMMITTEE
ASSIGNMENT: Budget Review Committee
FISCAL NOTE: The tax rate cannat be determined at this time. The entire budget 1s
a comprehensive package and each component impacts the tax
rate
ANALYSIS
this resolution adopts the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget for the City’s general, enterprise, special
revenue, and grant 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 § 36-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 mayonty vote, but an increase or addition requires a vote of two-thirds of
the members of the board. Court decisions concerning Nashua’s Charter sugyest thal a court
may find that this provision, when applicd to the budget resalution 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 Auuust |, 2022. Nashua City Charter § 56-b
Approved as to content, Financial Services Division
account structure, numbers, oe
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Approved as to form:
Date: Ly LE, Zoes—
