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Notices must be provided to the public at least ten and no more than twenty (20) days prior to the date of the hearing with date, time and location of the hearing.

County budgets must be filed by March 31 for the upcoming fiscal year that runs from July 1 to June 30.

Protests to county budgets for the upcoming fiscal year that runs from July 1 to June 30 must be provided no later than April 10.

Budget amendments for the current fiscal year that runs from July 1 to June 30 should be completed by May 31. Budgets may be amended after this deadline, but if the amendment is protested and properly appealed it is void.

A proposed amendment of a local budget is subject to protest for ten days from the decision or order of the board of supervisors, city council, school board or other public body or corporation with the power to levy a tax.

The department certifies taxes for the upcoming fiscal year which runs from July 1 to June 30 back to the county auditor by June 15.

County annual financial reports (AFR) is due December 1 for the prior fiscal year ending June 30.

The Annual Urban Renewal Report (AURR) for the fiscal year ending June 30 is due to the department and Iowa Legislative Services Agency by the following December 1. The AURR is a report of all urban renewal activities, balances, revenues and expenditures for the fiscal year.