Each year, the
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations surveys the 169
municipalities and 17 regional school districts for their experiences in
adopting their annual operating budgets and summarizes their experiences in a
report. The survey requests information regarding the method of budget
adoption, i.e., council, town meeting, referendum, date of adoption, and the
number of times the budget was voted on before it was adopted. The Commission
compares the information received with data from previous years in order to identify
trends and facilitate other analysis.