When adding a new year you must select a Data Status, enter the year being added, and choose which data you want to see in the year being added. If you select “Copy Previous Year Data”, all the data from the previous will be included in the new year.

Figure 21: Add a new annual data year - Municipal Edition

If you select “Add Blank Data”, a minimal number of line items, referred to as Base Budget items, will be inserted with values of zero. Each line item is of the Base Budget refers to a major line number from the F65 like Police, Fire, General Government, etc. The Base Budget items are a collection of line items to make future year data entry easy. All the line items are coded as General Fund and start with a zero amount.

Figure 22: Base Budget items, Municipal Edition