[Amended 6-2-2011 by Order No. 2011-134]
The Town hereby establishes revolving funds, pursuant to Chapter
44, § 53 E 1/2 of the General Laws, within the special revenue
accounts of the Town of Barnstable which shall be known as the:
A. Classroom
Education Fund, Senior Services Division, Community Services Department.
B. Adult
Social Day Fund, Senior Services Division, Community Services Department.
C. Recreation
Program Fund, Recreation Division, Community Services Department.
D. Shellfish
Propagation Fund, Natural Resources Division, Community Services Department.
E. Building
Inspections Fund, Building Services Division, Regulatory Services
Department.
F. Consumer
Protection Fund, Consumer Affairs Division, Regulatory Services Department.
G. Geographical
Information Systems Fund, Information Systems Division, Administrative
Services Department.
H. Police
Training Fund, Police Department.
I. Arts and Culture Program Fund, Planning and Development Department.
[Amended 5-4-2017 by Order
No. 2017-142]
[Amended 6-2-2011 by Order No. 2011-134; 5-4-2017 by Order No. 2017-142[
The Senior Services Division, the Recreation Division and the
Natural Resources Division of the Community Services Department, the
Building Services Division and Consumer Affairs Division of the Regulatory
Services Department, the Information Systems Division of the Administrative
Services Department, the Police Department and the Planning and Development
Department are hereby authorized to operate said funds in the following
manner:
A. The
Town Accountant shall account for all funds separately from all other
monies of the Town and to which shall be credited only the departmental
receipts received in connection with the programs supported by such
revolving fund. Receipts credited to each of these revolving funds
shall mean the following:
(1) For the Classroom Education Fund, Adult Social Day Fund and the Recreation
Program Fund: program registration fees to participate in these programs.
(2) For the Shellfish Propagation Fund: fees generated from the sale
of commercial and recreational shellfish permits.
(3) For the Building Inspections Fund: fees generated from permits issued
on municipal projects over $500,000 and private projects over $3,000,000.
(4) For Consumer Protection Fund: fees generated for services performed
under this program.
(5) For the Geographical Information Systems Fund: fees generated for
the production of GIS maps and reports.
(6) For the Police Training Fund: fees generated for providing police
training to police of other towns.
(7) For the Arts and Culture Program Fund: lease payments received from
the rental of artist shanties gifts or contributions received for
the support or promotion of arts and culture programs and any revenue
generated from Town-sponsored arts and culture programming.
B. Expenditures
may be made from such revolving funds without further appropriation,
subject to the provisions of this article; provided, however, that
expenditures shall not be made or liabilities incurred from any of
the revolving funds in excess of the balance of the fund nor in excess
of the total authorized expenditures from such fund. Expenditures
from such revolving funds shall be at the approval of the Town Manager.
C. Interest
earned on any revolving fund balance shall be treated as general fund
revenue of the Town.
D. Expenditures
from said fund shall not be made for the purpose of paying any wages
or salaries for full-time employees unless the fringe benefits associated
with such wages or salaries are also charged to the fund. Subject
to the foregoing, the funds may be expended for payment of teachers,
recreational instructors, police training instructors, shellfish propagation
officers, building inspectors, weights and measures inspectors, and
other expenses of programs providing classroom education to participating
senior citizens, programs providing recreational activities to participating
residents of the Town, shellfish seed stock and related shellfish
propagation equipment, professional building inspection services,
weights and measures enforcement, production of GIS reports and police
training and expenses related to the promotion of arts and culture
programs.
Annually, at the time the Town budget is submitted to the Town Council, the Town Manager shall submit an order to the Town Council authorizing the revolving funds set forth in §
86-7. The order shall contain the following:
A. The programs and purposes for which the revolving
fund may be expended;
B. The department or officer authorized to expend from
such fund;
C. The departmental receipts which shall be credited
to the revolving fund; and
D. A limit on the total which may be expended from such
fund in the ensuing year, subject further to limitations that may
be established annually within the order.
At the end of each fiscal year, the Finance
Director shall report to the Town Manager the total amount of receipts
and expenditures of each revolving fund for the prior fiscal year.
The program directors shall report to the Town Manager the programs,
services and participants served by each of the programs. The Town
Manager shall forthwith cause a report to be made to the Town Council,
together with such other information, as the Town Council shall require.
At the close of a fiscal year in which a revolving
fund is not reauthorized for the following year, or in which the Town
changes the purposes for which money in a revolving fund may be spent
in the following year, the balance in the fund at the end of the fiscal
year shall revert to surplus revenue unless the Town Council, upon
the recommendation for a transfer from the Town Manager, votes to
transfer such balance to another revolving fund.