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<section number="10-106" name="Public hearings; adoption of budget" law="code" slug="sec-10-106" node_id="PTIITI17PULOLAPRGECOMA_SUBTITLE_10FITA_DIV1BUAUCO_S10-106PUHEADBU">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Council shall consider the proposed budget and set a time and place for two (2) public hearings.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>After such hearings and any such amendments as authorized by Section 809 of the Charter, the Council shall by ordinance adopt the budget for the forthcoming fiscal year, appropriate the amount of the expense items, and fix the rates of all special taxes. The number of permanent full-time and part-time positions in the classified service, as enumerated in Section 10-105(b), and funded in the budget document for each agency or department, shall constitute the position authorization for those grade levels for that agency or department shall not be exceeded unless approved in writing by a majority vote of the full Council. In addition, Council approval by majority vote, after a public hearing, of the report listing all executory multiyear personal service contracts for the ensuing fiscal year exceeding an aggregate of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) per contractor, and all other executory multiyear contracts for the ensuing fiscal year exceeding an aggregate of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), as enumerated in Section 10-105(c), and funded in the budget document for each agency or department, shall constitute the approval required for such multiyear contracts required by Section 819 of the Charter. The report shall list each contractor and total contract value of the executory multiyear contract. Any contract listed therein not approved by the Council shall be deemed disapproved.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>After the budget has been submitted to the Executive for his approval or item veto and returned to the Council, and after appropriate Council action has been taken on an Executive veto, if any, the Council shall set by resolution, the County general property tax levy. The levy shall be set forth in such a manner as to show the total property tax rate and that portion of the rate in dollars and cents per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation attributable to the budget for Prince George's County Public Schools. Each County property tax bill shall show in percentage terms the amount of the County Government's portion of each tax bill that is attributable to the budget for Prince George's County Public Schools. Each tax bill shall also show the total County funding for the Prince George's County Public Schools and the total anticipated County revenue from property taxes for the current fiscal year.</text>
  </level>
</section>
