§ 6.07. Appropriation and additional tax ordinances.

At the same time that he submits the general fund budget the city manager may introduce in the council a general appropriation ordinance. The appropriation ordinance shall be based on the general fund budget but need not be itemized further than by departments and the major operating units thereof, and by courts, bureaus, boards, commissions, offices and agencies submitting separate budget estimates, and by the principal object of the expenditure. At the same time the city manager shall also introduce any proposals for altering the tax rate on real estate and personal property or other proposals for levying a new tax or altering the rate of any other tax necessary to balance the general fund budget as hereinbefore provided. New ordinances altering the tax rate or levying a new tax may, however, be introduced and passed at any other time of the year, except that the rate of the tax that is levied on real estate shall be fixed as set forth in section 2.02(a)(1). (Acts 1964, ch. 288; Acts 1970, ch. 492)