§ 6.07. Appropriations and additional tax ordinances.

At the same time that he submits the general fund budget, the city manager shall introduce in the council a general fund appropriation ordinance. The appropriation ordinance shall be based on the general fund budget but need not be itemized further than by departments and the major operating units thereof, and by bureaus, boards, commissions, offices and agencies submitting separate budget estimates, and by the principal objects of expenditures. At the same time the city manager shall also introduce any ordinance or ordinances altering the tax rate on real estate and tangible personal property or levying a new tax or altering the rate of any other tax necessary to balance the general fund budget as hereinbefore provided. The hearing on the budget plan as a whole, as provided in section 6.09, shall constitute the hearing on all ordinances referred to in this section, and the appropriation ordinances for each utility.