Glasgow Board of Aldermen May Revise Budget, Limits: Approval ordinance (§ 130.040)

A. The Board of Aldermen may revise, alter, increase or decrease the items contained in the proposed budget, subject to such limitations as may be provided by law, or charter, or in Subsection (B) of this Section, provided that in no event shall the total authorized expenditures from any fund exceed the estimated revenues to be received plus any unencumbered balance or less any deficit estimated for the beginning of the budget year. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Board of Aldermen shall, before the beginning of the fiscal year, approve the budget and approve or adopt such orders, motions, resolutions or ordinances as may be required to authorize the budgeted expenditures and produce the revenues estimated in the budget.

B. Any taxpayer of the City may initiate an action for injunctive relief, which the court shall grant, if the Board of Aldermen decreases the budget for its Law Enforcement Agency, except for those created under Section 162.215, RSMo., by an amount exceeding more than twelve percent (12%) relative to the proposed budgets of other departments of the City over a five-year aggregate amount.