[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of
the City of Middletown 2-7-1983; amended in its entirety 12-2-2002.
Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
No check or draft shall be drawn unless an itemized
bill or statement therefor, approved in writing by the department
director or other authorized official of the department, office or
agency which authorized the expenditure has been submitted to the
Finance Department.
The Director of Finance shall prepare and furnish
proper forms for time and payrolls for all City departments and offices.
The Director of Finance shall establish and
discontinue such accounts in each budget as may be necessary for the
proper administration of the funds of the City.
Each City official, other than officials receiving
Board of Education school cafeteria funds and student activity funds,
receiving money on behalf of the City in the form of cash, checks
or otherwise, shall turn over such money to the City Treasurer on
or before the next business day after it is received, with an itemized
Treasurer's receipt form attached. These receipts shall be audited
in the same manner as other City accounts.
When the tax has been laid according to law,
the City Clerk shall immediately prepare the rate bill and deliver
it to the rate maker to be attached to the official rate book.
When the rate bills have been completed and
signed, upon application of the Tax Collector the Mayor shall issue
a warrant under the seal of the City for the collection of the same,
directed to the Collector and commanding him to collect and pay the
same to the City Treasurer, and application shall be made in accordance
with the applicable provisions of the Connecticut General Statutes.
City funds in the possession of a City department,
agency, board or commission other than the Finance Department and
the City Treasurer will be the responsibility of the director or head
of that department, agency, board or commission until such time as
said funds are transferred and collected by the City Treasurer, disbursed,
or maintained for the purpose for which said funds have been established.
The director or head of said department, agency, board or commission
shall establish written procedures for the control of these funds.
A copy of the procedures shall be filed with the Mayor.
A.
For purposes of this section, the term "person" means
any individual, organization, trust, foundation, group, association,
partnership, corporation, society or any combination of them, whether
principal or agent.
B.
Any person who issues a check to the City of Middletown,
which check is returned for insufficient funds, shall pay to the City
of Middletown any bank charges associated with said insufficiency.
In addition to the duties and powers of the
Mayor as granted in the Charter, the Mayor is authorized to negotiate
for the purchase of real estate and take options on such real estate
in behalf of the City, provided that the Mayor shall expend no more
than $10,000 for any one option.
Refunds of unexpired license fees, excess payment
of taxes or other payments shall only be made by the Director of Finance
or his/her designee in accordance with the following procedure:
A.
The department from which the refund has been requested
shall review the documentation submitted supporting the request or
shall investigate the matter and, if appropriate, recommend approval
to the Mayor.
B.
The Mayor shall review the department's recommendation
and approve where warranted and forward to the Director of Finance
or his/her designee for payment.
A.
When any department, commission, office or agency
is the recipient of any federal, state or other grant allocated for
a specific purpose, confirmation and approval of the grant shall be
given at the next regular meeting of the Common Council. The action
of the Common Council in confirming and approving such transfer shall
be an appropriation; no public hearing thereon shall be required,
and said funds may then be expended for the purpose for which the
grant was approved.
B.
Municipal
grant awards. Unless specifically approved by the Common Council or
where the grant recipient is an individual and not an organization
and the individual has requested a grant for less than $2,000, all
grants requiring the expenditure of any City funds must have a 1:1
matching requirement so that every dollar expended by the City is
matched by a dollar expended by non-City sources. No City funds may
be used in meeting this dollar-for-dollar matching requirement, nor
may any in-kind services be used as equivalents to meet the matching
requirement. Every dollar expended by the City must be matched by
an actual dollar expended by non-City sources. When applying for municipal
grants, the prospective grant recipients must submit copies of the
organization’s budget from the prior year and the year in which
the grant is sought, financial statements for the most current reporting
period, and a list of funding sources for the prior year and the year
in which the grant is requested.
[Added 5-2-2016 by Ord.
No. 07-16; amended 2-5-2024 by Ord. No. 03-24]
When a department, commission, officer or agency
shall desire to transfer funds from one line item to another within
its budget, such department, commission, officer or agency shall make
application to the Finance Director who, with the approval of the
Mayor, shall approve or disapprove such requested transfer of funds.
Every application, whether approved or denied, shall be reported at
the next Finance and Budget Committee meeting and also at the next
regular Common Council meeting.
Additional appropriations may be made from time
to time by the Common Council, after public hearing and upon certification
of the Finance Director that there is an unobligated, unencumbered
balance in the fund from which to meet such additional appropriation.
