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How the Budget is Amended
The City of Southlake Charter Sections 9.20 through 9.25 defines the
process for budget amendments (see Appendix). To meet these Charter DID YOU
requirements, budget amendment requests, if necessary, are evaluated KNOW?
and processed each year and presented to City Council for review and
approval.
Citizen Input and Communication HAVE A BUDGET Budget Basics
The process leading to the budget adoption is participatory and includes COMMENT OR QUESTION?
a communications plan that encourages input from citizens, boards and Contact the City Manager’s
commissions, City departments, and the City Council. Office at (817) 748-8057 or
TalkToUs@cityofsouthlake.com
The communications plan includes:
- Public hearings;
- Live online broadcasts of City Council work sessions, meetings and public hearings;
- Presentations to City boards and commissions;
- Access to all volumes of the Proposed and Adopted budgets through the Southlake Public Library system;
and,
- Internet access to all budget documents and videos of public meetings at www.CityofSouthlake.com.
In addition to communication provided during the budget process, the budget is developed using feedback
from the City’s biennial Citizen Satisfaction Survey. In this survey residents tell the City what they think are
the most important services and what they are most satisfied with. Using this information, the budget is
developed to ensure that these service priorities are continually met. Figure 2 below shows the services
rated with the highest importance in the last survey, conducted in October 2023. This survey data was used
to inform budget recommendations for FY 2025.
Figure 2
2023 Citizen Survey Top 10 Most Important Services
HOW WELL IS THE CITY PERFORMING IN
MEETING THE NEEDS OF SOUTHLAKE RESIDENTS?
Top Ten Services - Importance
(1) indicates this question response was
added in 2023. *** indicates that the
question response was revised in 2023.
Due to the change in wording for the
response, caution should be used in
direct comparison with 2021.
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