65.025 Biennial budget procedures.
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65.025 Biennial budget procedures.
(1)A city may adopt a biennial budget by implementing the procedures under this section and using the procedures under ss. 65.02 to 65.20 . If a city chooses to adopt a biennial budget, it shall adopt such a budget in an odd-numbered year for the next 2 fiscal years that follow immediately the year in which the budget is adopted.
(2)For a city to proceed under this section, the common council shall adopt a resolution or enact an ordinance stating its intent to adopt a biennial budget. Once a resolution is adopted or an ordinance is enacted, such an action takes effect and may not be reconsidered or repealed, except as provided in sub.
(3).
(3)A common council that has adopted a biennial budget procedure as provided in this section may return to the use of an annual budget procedure if the common council, by a two-thirds majority vote, adopts a resolution or enacts an ordinance stating its intent to adopt an annual budget.
(4)A common council or a committee authorized by the common council may, at any time, decrease appropriation amounts in a biennial budget.
(5)In October or November of an even-numbered year, the common council may change any appropriation or revenue amount in relation to the 2nd year of the biennial budget by a simple majority vote of the members-elect, as defined in s. 59.001
(2m).