Budget Calendar

The City of Westminster officially adopted its first two-year budget with the adoption of the 2003-2004 budget. With the official adoption of a two-year budget, the budget development process will primarily occur during even-numbered years. For more information on the city's two-year budget, please see About Two-Year Budgeting.

March or April

• City Council Strategic Planning Retreat

June

• First public meeting on budget to receive initial input from citizens

July

• Second public meeting on budget to receive initial input from citizens
• Review proposed operating budget priorities for year one with City Council

August

• Review operating budget priorities for year two with City Council
• Review CIP priorities with City Council

September

• Proposed budget document distributed to City Council and made available to the public
• Public hearing on proposed budget
• City Council budget retreat

October

• Budget adoption (the City Charter requires that the budget be adopted by the fourth Monday of October)
• City Council appropriates, by ordinance, the money needed for municipal purposes during the next fiscal year and sets the mill levy (property tax rate) for the next two years