§ 2-453. Duties of fiscal office.

(a)

The councilmanic fiscal officer shall serve as director of the councilmanic fiscal office and shall be solely responsible to the council.

(b)

The councilmanic fiscal officer shall have the following duties and responsibilities:

(1)

To develop fiscal information regarding existing programs;

(2)

To evaluate proposed programs and budgets;

(3)

To review and evaluate all requests for appropriations by departments and agencies;

(4)

To analyze annual operating and capital budget requests of departments and agencies;

(5)

To analyze and evaluate budgetary recommendations of the chief administration office;

(6)

To perform budgetary studies at the requests of individual councilmembers;

(7)

To analyze and evaluate capital budget requests, recommendations and expenditures;

(8)

To make short- and long-range studies of projected revenues;

(9)

To evaluate councilmanic budgetary proposals for fiscal effect;

(10)

To make recommendations to the council regarding councilmanic participation in budget studies; fiscal policy, fiscal research and departmental operations;

(11)

To monitor departmental operations, to monitor efficiency in government;

(12)

To submit a report periodically to the council regarding analyses and evaluations performed;

(13)

To monitor annual budgetary expenditures on an on-going basis;

(14)

To monitor the progress of capital budget programs and submit progress reports to the council.

(c)

The council fiscal officer shall provide staff support for the parish board of review, including administration of consultant contracts which may be deemed necessary by the board. When authorized to do so by resolution of the board of review, the fiscal office staff may collect a processing fee not to exceed $25.00 for each application for assessment abatement which is incomplete or defective when received by the fiscal staff. Such fee shall be collected from the applicant and shall be used to defray the cost of notification to the applicant of such defect or incompletion and to defray the cost of processing the supplemental information which may be provided in response to such notification.

(Code 1956, § 2-17)