With just more than six weeks until the deadline to pass a new city budget, Medford City Council newcomer John Falco is frustrated the group has yet to receive a budget meeting schedule, let alone a first draft of the budget itself.

Falco has been asking for details about the budget process since Jan. 12, when the council unanimously passed his resolution requesting a budget template — in order to give councilors a look at the format before kicking off its annual round of pre-budget meetings with department heads.

“We haven’t heard anything, and we are getting into budget season,” Falco said at the council’s April 26 meeting. “I think three months [of waiting] has been appropriate. I’m starting to get calls; people are asking me what’s going on.”

The January resolution noted drafts provided to Medford School Committee members during the School Department’s budget process include a written narrative budget summary with goals, objectives, priorities and staffing vacancies.

Councilors, meanwhile, have in recent years received budget drafts with much less detail. Pre-budget reports issued to councilors have not, for example, included a comparison of budgeted funding vs. funds spent.

“We’re still waiting for something formal that we can see so when we go into the actual budget [meetings], we’re not seeing it for the first time,” Falco continued. “We should be working together here, and I’d like some sort of response. So if we could get some sort of response from the budget director or the mayor, I’d really appreciate it.”

Still without a response, Falco raised the topic again during the council’s May 3 meeting.

“It’s one of the most important responsibilities we have — passing the budget — and we should know what it’s going to look like, the format, before we get to those meetings, before we get the budget book,” he said. “I’d also like to see a budget calendar. When are we expected to get the budget? When are we going to meet with the department heads?”

Last year, the council began meeting with department heads June 2. The council passed the current budget June 30, the day before the start of the city’s new fiscal year.

As of Wednesday, Falco said the council still had not received details about upcoming budget meetings from the city’s administration.