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Section 2 Financial Analysis
Budget 101 Overview

Council on strategic planning initiatives and policies as well as their implementation.
Responsible for attracting, retaining, and developing a municipal/ educational work force for
delivering top quality municipal and academic services.

Dept 12 - The Planning and Development Department is
responsible for processing platting and zoning requests
and ensuring that proposed development will conform to
the Town of Westlake’ s comprehensive plans. This also
requires the continuous updating and amending of
ordinances to address ever-changing development
concerns. The Building and Code Compliance Division is
responsible for the administration and enforcement of
the Town’ s adopted building codes and ordinances to
assure that development is executed and maintained in
compliance with ordinances and approved
development plans.

Dept 13 – The Town Secretary’ s office performs tasks outlined in the Texas Municipal Law and
Procedure for General Law Type A Cities. Coordinating municipal elections. Providing
support of the Town Council, Board of Trustees, Planning and Zoning Commission, and the
Zoning Board of Adjustments. Oversight of the Town’ s (municipal and academic) records
management programs. The Town Secretary is also responsible for the communicating
meeting information to the community.

Dept 14 - The Fire - EMS Department provides for the public
safety needs of the Town via a variety of programs and
services. Most of these services are Fire and Emergency
Medical Services ( EMS) related but also includes hazardous
materials mitigation, fire prevention and public education.
Many civic organizations also benefit from these types of
services through the training activities and
inspection/ prevention programs that the Department
provides. The Department will continue to provide the most
efficient method of delivering the traditional services – Fire
Protection, Emergency Medical Services, Fire Inspections and
Public Education while continuing to seek further avenues of
outreach into the community.

Dept 15 - The Municipal Court performs the duties necessary to support municipal judicial
functions, assist the public and manage court operations. The program will uphold the
integrity of the Court and build public trust by providing unbiased quality service and
accurate information delivered in an efficient and professional manner.

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