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Budget Resolution Page 2 of 3 Each such official shall file their estimates within the time and in the manner provided in the notice and form and the auditor may deduct and withhold as a penalty from the salary of each official failing or refusing to file such estimates as herein provided, the sum of fifty dollars for each day of delay: Provided that the total penalty against any one official shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars in any one year. 3. The preliminary budget prepared by the Auditor shall be submitted to the Board on or before September 20, 2021. The Board shall then review the preliminary budget in detail with the County Auditor and/or Budget & Finance Manager and shall make any revisions and additions it deems advisable. 4. Commencing September 20 through September 30, 2021, if deemed necessary by the Board, they will request Elected Officials and/or department heads be available to discuss individual budget requests. 5. Per RCW 84.55.120 the county legislative authority must hold a public hearing on October 4, 2021, to discuss revenue sources for the coming year's budget including consideration of possible increases in property tax revenues. 6. Per RCW 36.81.130, on or before the first Monday in October of each year each county road engineer shall file with the county legislative authority a recommended plan for the laying out, construction, and maintenance of county roads for the ensuing fiscal year. Any appropriations contained in the county road budget shall be void unless the county's road plan was adopted prior to such appropriation. 7. The preliminary budget will be returned to the Auditor on or before October 29, 2021, for presentation in final form. 8. Per R.C.W. 84.52.020, It shall be the duty of the city council or other governing body of every city, other than a city having a population of three hundred thousand or more, the board of directors of school districts of the first class, the superintendent of each educational service district for each constituent second-class school district, commissioners of port districts, commissioners of metropolitan park districts, and of all officials or boards of taxing districts within or coextensive with any county required by law to certify to the county legislative authority, for the purpose of levying district taxes, budgets or estimates of the amounts to be raised by taxation on the assessed valuation of the property in the city or district, through their chair and clerk, or secretary, to make and file such certified budget or estimates with the clerk of the county legislative authority on or before the thirtieth day of November. 9. Per R.C.W. 84.52.070, It shall be the duty of the county legislative authority of each county, on or before the thirtieth day of November in each year, to certify to the county assessor of the county the amount of taxes levied upon the property in the county for county purposes, and the respective amounts of taxes levied by the board for each taxing district, within or coextensive with