City of Plymouth Proposed 2022-2023 Budget - Flipbook - Page 290
FINANCE AND TREASURER
Description of responsibilities and services:
The finance department is responsible for the City’s budget. The budget has three primary
functions:
1. LEGAL FUNCTION: The budget is an authorization to spend in the form of a series of
appropriations.
2. POLITICAL FUNCTION: The budget is a process for allocating scarce resources. Decisions
about how much public money will be raised and what it will be spent for are essentially
political. This is reflected in the fact that the adoption of the budget is done by an elected
body, and after a public hearing.
3. MANAGEMENT FUNCTION: The budget is adopted in sufficient detail to define a set of
expectations or goals. The amount and quality of each city service is defined, and an amount
of money is appropriated. The service and related budget are then monitored to see that the
service is in fact being provided as expected and that the rate of expenditure is such that the
appropriation will be sufficient to provide the service at the expected level for the entire
fiscal year.
The treasurer is responsible for the collection of all taxes due to the City and for distribution
of said taxes to their respective agencies. In addition, the treasurer oversees water billing,
dog licensing, parking tickets, and all other payments made to the City of Plymouth.
Budget Location:
Fund:
101
Department: 253
Finance Director/
Treasurer
Deputy
Treasurer
PR/MR Clerk
AP Clerk
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Finance Clerk
Finance Clerk
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