TOWN
OF
SURFSIDE
GAZETTE FEBRUARY 2016
MESSAGE FROM THE TOWN MANAGER
2016-17 Budget Preparation Has Already Started The Town has already begun the process of preparing the 2016-17 Proposed Budget. I am required under the Town’s Charter to submit a proposed budget to the Town Commission by July 1st each year. The proposed budget includes my budget message and estimates of revenues and expenditures for each department. The first planning meeting on the proposed budget was held on January 26th with all department directors in order to review their preliminary requests for any personnel changes, equipment and capital improvements. Each department is later required to submit their formal requests for operating funds, new programs, capital equipment and improvements, and personnel changes in a detailed format in order to prepare the proposed budget. A budget workshop is held with the Town Commission for their goals and priorities prior to the preparation of the proposed budget. The budget is the most important financial planning tool and is the reason the process starts in January and ends with two public hearings in September before the new fiscal year starts October 1st. – Guillermo Olmedillo, Town Manager
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Third Thursday Dances Back to the 1950s
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2016 Election Information 3
Surfside Gazette • FEBRUARY 2016
Small Business County Grants Available
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Surfside Receives Award for Financial Reporting
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More than 100 Support the Surfside Holiday Fund
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