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shall also include such other supporting or explanatory material as the mayor deems desirable. The mayor's budget message which accompanies the amendments to the operating budget and to the capital budget shall describe the changes in proposed expenditures and in revenue projections from the budgets which had been submitted on or before March 1, and shall describe the intervening changes in circumstances which justify the changes in the proposed expenditures and projected revenues. (1990, Prop. 4, sec. 1; 2010, Prop. 7, sec. 38 and sec. 39.) Section 10 -4. Operating Budget and Capital Budget: Notice and Hearing. The council shall hold a public hearing on the operating budget and capital budget at any time after March 1, but prior to the first reading on the budget bills. At this hearing all persons interested shall have an opportunity to be heard. At least one week before the hearing, the county council shall publish in at least two daily newspapers of general circulation in the county as well as via an electronic medium, such as the Internet, the general summaries of the operating budget and capital budget and a notice setting forth the time and place for public hearing thereon and for their consideration by the council. The council shall also allow public testimony at any meeting at which the operating budget or capital budget, or amendments thereto, are considered. (1990, Prop. 4, sec. 1; 1990, Prop. 10, sec. 4; 2010, Prop. 19, sec. 4.) Section 10 -5. Operating Budget: Council Action. After the public hearing, and after the submission of the amendments to the operating budget and to the capital budget, the county council may adopt the operating budget as amended with or without further amendments. First reading shall be after May 5. In amending, it may add new items or increase items in the operating budget. It may decrease or delete items, excepting appropriations required by law and appropriations for debt service. But in all cases the estimated revenues for the ensuing year shall be at least equal in amount to the proposed expenditures. The council shall adopt the operating budget on or before June 30. If it fails to do so, the operating budget as submitted and as amended by the mayor shall be deemed adopted by the council as the operating budget for the ensuing fiscal year. If the mayor disapproves of the bill adopting the operating budget or of any part thereof, the mayor shall return the bill or the portions vetoed with a written statement of objections to the clerk for further council action within ten calendar days of receipt of the bill. The adopted operating budget shall be in effect on and after the first day of the fiscal year to which it applies. (1974, Ord. No. 57, sec. 3; 1990, Prop. 4, sec. 1; 2010, Prop. 7, sec. 40.) Section 10 -6. Capital Budget and Capital Program: Scope; Council Action. (a) The capital budget shall contain at least the following: (1) A simple, clear, general summary of the detailed contents of the capital budget. (2) The capital improvements pending or proposed to be undertaken within the ensuing fiscal year, together with the estimated cost of each improvement, the estimated operating cost, and the pending or proposed method of financing it. (3) Capital expenditures to be financed from current revenues in the ensuing fiscal year. 34