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Birmingham Budget Proposal

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I. INTRODUCTION The city of Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. Then city of Birmingham has a population currently estimated at 242,820, and a metro population of 1,079,089 (City of Birmingham, n.d.). Birmingham is the 13th largest among southeastern metropolitan areas and is home to 40,680 businesses. Birmingham’s mayor Honorable William A. Bell has been in office since 2010 and is the cities 33rd mayor. Mayor Bell is also the President of the County Commission in the Departments of Health and Community Services and District One. The mayor is responsible all personnel appointments and terminations subject to the laws governing the civil system and the council exercises legislative power and makes appointments to any independent …show more content…

The cities finance department is responsible for preparing the budget and administration, investments, capital financing, insurance and risk management and disbursements. Other functions include accounting, auditing, the collection of sales and occupational license taxes, business licenses and other revenues, and the purchasing of all materials, supplies, equipment and services (City of Birmingham, n.d.). The City of Birmingham budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, states the bulk of its revenue from business taxes (83.8 %), while the rest comes from property taxes (6 %), and charges for services (3.3%) (City of Birmingham, n.d. pg. ).The budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, allocates appropriations of 382.2 million dollars. The allocation of these appropriations is mainly distributed to city departments (84.4%), with the bulk going to public safety (59%). Public Safety includes fires, police, public works, municipal court, traffic engineering and planning, engineering & permits (City of Birmingham, …show more content…

The first phase of the cycle, consist of preparation and submission of the budget to the legislative body, which in this case is the city council. The Mayor of Birmingham submits the budget to the city council. The second phase of the cycles is approval by the city council. The third phase on the budget is execution, in this phase the approved areas of the operational budget are executed. The fourth and final phase audit and evaluation, involved the current operational budget to be

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