§ 2-163. Approval of city council.

(a)

The council shall have power to accept with or without amendments, or reject, the proposed program of capital improvement projects and proposed means of financing for the ensuing fiscal year but, except in the case of emergency and except to meet needs for capital improvements arising out of annexation of additional territory taking effect during the current or preceding fiscal year and except to meet the needs for capital improvements which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of adoption of the capital budget, the council shall not authorize any capital improvement project or make any appropriation therefor unless the appropriation for such project is included in the capital budget as adopted by it.

(b)

The council shall take final action on the program of capital improvement projects and on any revenue or appropriation ordinance submitted therewith, not later than the twenty-eight (28) days after the adoption of the general fund budget. Upon approval and adoption of the program of capital improvement projects, the first year's proposals of the five-year program shall constitute the capital budget of the city of the year it is enacted.

(c)

The council shall in no event adopt a capital budget in which the total amount of expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year exceeds the estimated receipts unless at the same time council adopts measures for providing additional revenue in the ensuing fiscal year sufficient to make up the difference.

(d)

No appropriation for a capital improvement project contained in the capital budget shall lapse until the purpose for which the appropriation was made shall have been accomplished or abandoned; provided that, a project shall be deemed to have been abandoned if after three (3) fiscal years from the appropriation, no expenditures from or encumbrances of the appropriation for the project have been made or incurred. Any such lapsed appropriation shall be applied to the payment of any indebtedness incurred in financing the project concerned, and if there be no such indebtedness shall be available for appropriation for another project in the next year's capital budget.

(Ord. No. 82-1700-201, 8-17-82; Ord. No. 10-1000-892, 6-15-10)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 10-1000-892 approved June 15, 2010 stated "...that the Governing Body meeting in regular session on June 15, 2010 accepts the recommendation of the Planning Commission of the City of Manassas Park, Virginia and approves the FY2011-2016 Capital Improvements Program."

(Ord. No. 82-1700-201, 8-17-82; Ord. No. 10-1000-892, 6-15-10)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 10-1000-892 approved June 15, 2010 stated "...that the Governing Body meeting in regular session on June 15, 2010 accepts the recommendation of the Planning Commission of the City of Manassas Park, Virginia and approves the FY2011-2016 Capital Improvements Program."