[CC 1989 §3-1]
The General Revenue Fund shall be composed of the proceeds of all fines, penalties and forfeitures accruing to the City and revenue from all other sources whatever, except the proceeds of special assessments for buildings or repairing sidewalks, streets or gutters, and from taxes levied and collected for the payment of any bonds or interest thereon and except for such special funds as may be established by law, this Code or other ordinance.
[CC 1989 §3-2]
A. 
The City Clerk shall establish, out of the General Revenue Fund of the City, a separate fund in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to be designated the "petty cash fund" which shall be used for the payment of bills which should or must be paid before regularly allowed.
B. 
Any other provision of this Code to the contrary notwithstanding, the City Clerk is hereby authorized to draw on the petty cash fund on his/her signature alone, but he/she shall retain vouchers for each payment made therefrom and shall report to the City Council the sums so spent and for what.
[CC 1989 §3-3]
Purchases of materials, supplies, equipment and services, other than personnel services, shall be made only on requisition, executed in duplicate by the head of the agency making the purchase, in accord with such requirements as the Mayor may prescribe. Before any purchase is made, the requisition therefor shall be submitted to the City Clerk who shall certify on the face thereof that there is or is not an unencumbered balance in the particular appropriation account of the agency making the purchase during the period in which the purchase is made. If there is no balance or an insufficient balance exists in such account, the requisition shall not be executed, provided that the Mayor may authorize the head of the requisitioning agency to hold such requisition until such time as sufficient funds become available therefor.
[CC 1989 §3-4]
No money of the City shall be expended except through properly drawn checks upon the City Treasury.
[CC 1989 §3-5]
A. 
All checks drawn for salaries, expenses or liabilities of the City or grading or repairing streets or other public work shall be drawn upon and payable out of the General Revenue Fund, except as otherwise provided.
B. 
All checks drawn on account of salaries or expenses incident to the Library Board, Public Works Board or Park Board shall be drawn upon, and payable only out of, the funds belonging to those departments respectively.
[CC 1989 §3-6]
No check shall be drawn upon the City Treasury unless there be an unexpended balance, sufficient to pay such check, to the credit of the City in the fund upon which such check is drawn.
[CC 1989 §3-7]
The City Clerk shall keep an accurate register in his/her office of all checks issued, which shall represent, in the form of a stub, the number of each one drawn, the name of the person to whose favor, the date, the amount, and for what purpose issued.
[CC 1989 §3-8]
All checks shall be assignable by endorsement thereon, signed by the payee and giving the name of the assigns and date of the assignment.
[CC 1989 §3-9]
All City Officers who shall in the discharge of their official duties receive any money belonging to the City shall, unless otherwise directed by law, this Code or other ordinance of the City, on the last business day of each calendar month deliver to the City Clerk such sums of money as they may have on hand, taking duplicate receipts therefor, one (1) of which shall be filed with the City Clerk.
[CC 1989 §3-10]
A. 
The City, City boards, commissioners and other services of the City which handle funds shall have a single combined audit of each and every fund made annually by a certified public accountant. The audit shall cover the financial activities of the City for the preceding fiscal year.
B. 
The certified public accountant selected pursuant to Subsection (A) shall be duly registered and in good standing with the State Board of Accountancy and shall maintain an office in the State. The services of such certified public accountant shall be contracted for in the same manner in which services of attorneys and other professional individuals are obtained.
[CC 1989 §3-11]
A. 
The City Council, shall have power to select a City depository in accordance with the provisions of Sections 95.280 and 95.285, RSMo., which depository shall be the depository of all City, City board, City commission and City agency funds.
B. 
Within five (5) days after the selection of a City depository by the City Council, the banking institution so selected shall deposit the securities as required by Sections 110.010 and 110.020, RSMo.
C. 
Following the selection of a City depository and the deposit by it of the securities as required by law, the City Treasurer shall conform to the regulations contained in the provisions of Sections 95.295 and 95.300, RSMo., insofar as such provisions relate to the duties imposed upon him/her.
[CC 1989 §3-12]
A. 
On purchases in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), the City purchasing officers are encouraged to select products manufactured, assembled or produced in the United States if the quality and price are comparable with other goods.
B. 
Every contract for public works construction or maintenance in excess of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) shall contain a provision requesting the contractor to use American products in the performance of the contract whenever the quality and price are comparable to other goods.
C. 
The City Council encourages the people of the City to purchase products manufactured, assembled or produced in the United States whenever the quality and price are comparable with other goods.
[CC 1989 §2-8; Ord. No. 6774 §§1—2, 2-27-1995]
A. 
The City Council may revise, alter, increase or decrease the items contained in any proposed budget, subject to such limitations as may be provided by law, provided, that in no event shall the total authorized expenditures from any fund exceed the estimated revenues to be received plus any unencumbered balance or less any deficit estimated for the beginning of the budget year. Except as otherwise provided by law, the City Council shall, before the beginning of each fiscal year, approve the budget and approve or adopt such orders, motions, resolutions or ordinances as may be required to authorize the budgeted expenditures and produce the revenues estimated in the budget.
B. 
Any amendments or additions to the previously approved annual budget of the City shall be approved at the last regularly scheduled Council meeting prior to the City general election each year.