They will fly home for a vote, tentatively scheduled for Thursday, to ratify the budget agreement.
California is one of only three states that require a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to ratify a budget.
The Council vote ratified a budget deal that was struck by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Council speaker, Gifford Miller, earlier this week, and clears the way for it to take effect at the start of the city's fiscal year next Thursday.
But Welsh councils, which have been ratifying their budgets for the following financial year, say they have faced difficult decisions to balance the books.
To the extent that he has a policy at all, it's a shopworn version of the twenty-first-century Republican usuals: ratifying a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution "to restore fiscal responsibility," introducing a flat tax, not raising the minimum wage, yada, yada, yada.
To ensure those spending caps are set in stone, we should ratify a balanced budget amendment.
Working jointly, the two chambers have the authority to amend the constitution, approve the budget, ratify treaties, and declare war; each chamber also has exclusive powers.
The City Council ratified a $29.5 billion budget for New York City early this morning that adds $88 million for schools, police, parks, highway cleaning, cultural institutions and city colleges to the spending plan proposed last month by Mayor David N. Dinkins.
Today we have our Development Committee at five pm, and a Board meeting at five thirty pm to "ratify" the 2012 budget already approved by the Finance committee.
Consider these suggestions before you ratify your 2010 budget; Begin to "Piggy Back" your mailings.
With the competition over, the winning budget was ratified with one last vote, 228-199.
