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further consider the proposed budget and make any revisions thereof that it may deem advisable. On or before .luna 30 the City Council shall adopt tho budget with revisions, if any, by the affirmative votes of et least three of its members. Upon final adoption, the budget shall be in effect for the ensuing fiscal year. The budget adopted by the City Council shell provide for the sup. port of public recreation programs at least the equivalent of Six Cents (6c) on each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of the assessed value of taxable property in the City on the legal assessment date for the prev. tous fiscal year. A copy of the adopted budget, certified to by the Clerk of the Council, shall be filed with the Director of Finance and a further copy shell be placed, and shill remain on file, in the office of the Clerk of the Counci~ where it shell bo evaiEable for inspection. The budget so certl. fled shall he reproduced and copies made available for the use of ell officers, offices, departments, and ether agencies of the City end for the use of civic organizations. Section 608. BUDGET: AMOUNT TO BE RAISED BY PROPERTY TAX AND CERTIFICATION TO THL: COUNTY. The City Council shell determine the amount of money required to bo raised by ad valorem municipal taxation and shall fix the ad valorem municipal tax rate end certify the same to the county authorities if the county system of ad valorem assessment and tax collection is used by the City. If the City Council fails to fix the rate end levy taxes on er before August 31, in any year, the rate for the next preceding fiscal year shall thereupon be automatically adopted and a tax et such rate shall be deemed to have been levied on all taxable property in the City for the current fiscal year. Section 609. BUDGET APROPRIATIONS. From tho effective date of the budqet, the several amounts stated therein as proposed expendl. turos shall be and become appropriated to the several offices, agencies, and departments for the respective objects and purposes therein speci- fied as stated in an appropriation ordinance. All appropriations shall lapse at the end of the fiscal year to the extent that they shall nel have been expended or lawfully encumbered. At any meeting after the adoption of the budget, the City Council may ame,d or supplement the budget by motion adopted by the affirmallve votes of et least four members so as to authorize the transfer of unused balenses appropriated for one purpose to another purpose, or to appropriate available revenue not included in the budget; except that the City Council shall not reduce that portion of the budget provid. ing for the support of public recreation programs below the amount spe~:ified in Section 607 of this A~ticie. Section 610. FUNDS: GENERAL FUND. All money paid into the City treasury shall he credited to and kept in separate funds in accord- ance with the provisions of Ihls Charter, state law, or ordinance. For the purpose of this Charter, the "General Fund" is established es a medium