Municipal Budget Committee

The Municipal Budget Committee works with the Board of Selectmen and other officers or department heads to estimate costs, revenues anticipated, and services to be performed to the extent deemed necessary by the budget committee.

The Municipal Budget Committee prepares this information for the budget for each annual or special meeting of the voters of Deerfield.

In any town which has adopted the provisions of this subdivision, the budget committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities:

1. To prepare the budget as provided in RSA 32:5, and if authorized under RSA 40:14-b, a default budget under RSA 40:13, IX(b) for submission to each annual or special meeting of the voters of the municipality, and, if the municipality is a town, the budgets of any school district or village district wholly within the town, unless the warrant for such meeting does not propose any appropriation.
2. To confer with the governing body or bodies and with other officers, department heads and other officials, relative to estimated costs, revenues anticipated, and services performed to the extent deemed necessary by the budget committee. It shall be the duty of all such officers and other persons to furnish such pertinent information to the budget committee.
3. To conduct the public hearings required under RSA 32:5, I.
4. To forward copies of the final budgets to the clerk or clerks, as required by RSA 32:5, VI, and, in addition, to deliver 2 copies of such budgets and recommendations upon special warrant articles to the respective governing body or bodies at least 20 days before the date set for the annual or special meeting, to be posted with the warrant.