[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 §3-3]
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 §3-6]
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 §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.