Budget Law Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. General Fund is for unrestricted revenues
2. Increasing fund more than 10% = supplemental budget requirement
3. Resolution adopting budget to include total budget amount
4. Must accept comment at budget hearing
5. Proposed budget includes budget message and details sheets
6. Post-adoption changes must be for unforeseen circumstances
7. No Contingencies in Debt Funds
8. Include FTE tally in personnel services cost
9. Publish budget committee mtg x2
10. File resolutions and ED-50 by July 15
11. Governing body can't increase tax rate (except...)
12. Budget committee cannot deliberate before first mtg
13. Financial summary of Approved Budget must be published
14. GO Bonds are required to have separate debt service fund
15. Budget Committee members must be qualified voters
16. Appropriations are legal authority to spend public $
17. Common Error: Excessive fund balance in GO Bond fund
18. Must have quorum to hold budget hearing
19. Budget principal and interest separately
20. Governing body acts as the budget committee
21. You cannot spend directly from contingency
22. Budget committee sets the tax rate
23. Have someone review your resolution
24. Add collection rate to property tax estimates
25. Quorum is more than half of membership
26. Budget must be adopted by July 1
27. Debt service gets its own appropriation
28. 5 to 30 days before meeting publish in paper
29. Special payments get their own appropriation