MO SB137

Counties may amend annual budgets when receiving additional unanticipated funds from federal or state grants or private donations, following standard budget adoption procedures.

Counties may decrease annual budgets twice per fiscal year if experiencing a verifiable decline in funds of 2 percent or more that could not be estimated when the budget was adopted.

Any budget reductions cannot unduly affect a single officeholder; negotiations must occur with all officeholders receiving funds from affected categories before reducing an independently elected officeholder's budget.

Notice of proposed reductions must be published and include a summary of reductions and explanation of the shortfall, with notice period extended to 30 days.

Subsections 2, 3, and 4 expire on July 1, 2016; county commissioners may reduce departmental budgets under their direct supervision without these restrictions; charter counties retain ability to amend budgets per their charter provisions.