DBC Budget Deadlines and Schedules

BUDGET DEADLINES AND SCHEDULES

Preparation of the annual budget will be scheduled in stages throughout the school year with attention to certain deadlines es­tablished by law and charter.

The calendar year for budget preparation will be determined by cal­culating backwards from the final adoption date that is the annual town meeting. Depending on the date thus set, the following will be scheduled:

Two weeks or more before the annual town meeting –

Publication of the budget for the meeting, by the Selectmen

Not less than 30 days before the annual town meeting –

Finance Committee holds a public hearing on its proposed recommendations for the arti­cles in the budget to be pub­lished as above.

Whatever dates assigned the above, the final date for the submission of the budget to the Selectmen will be arranged cooperatively with the School Committee and Finance Committee.

In reaching its decision on the budget amount that it will submit to the Selectmen, the School Committee will also observe the statutory requirement of holding a public hearing on the proposed budget not less than seven days after the notice for this hearing has been published in a local newspaper.

Established by law and charter

LEGAL REFS.: M.G.L. c.71:38N

Town Charter