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CITY OF LINO LAKES, MINNESOTA NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS December 31,2015 Note 1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POUCIES <CONTINUED> C. MEASUREMENT FOCUS AND BASIS OF ACCOUNTING (CONTINUED) Amounts reported as program revenues include: I. Charges to customers or applicants for goods, services, or priv!eges provided, 2. operating grants and contributions, and 3. capital grants and contributions, including special assessments. Proprietary funds distinguish operating revenues and expenses from nonoperating items. Operating revenues and expenses generally result from providing services and producing and delivering goods in connection with a proprietary fund's principal ongoing operations. The principal operating revenue of the City's enterprise funds are charges to customers for sales and services. Operating expenses for enterprise funds include the cost of sales and services, administrative expenses, and depreciation on capital assets. All revenues and expenses not meeting this definition are reported as nonoperating revenues and expenses. D. BUDGETS Budgets are adopted on a basis consistent with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Annual appropriated budgets are adopted for the General Fuud and the Program Recreation Special Revenue Fund. Budgeted expenditure appropriations lapse at year-end. Encumbrance accounting, under which purchase orders, contracts, and other commitments for the expenditure of monies are recorded in order to reserve that portion of the appropriation, is not employed by the City because it is not presently considered necessary to assure effective budgetary control or to facilitate effective cash management. E. LEGAL COMPLIANCE-BUDGETS The City follows these procedures in establishing the budgetary data reflected in the financial statements: I. The City Administrator submits to the City Council a proposed operating budget (including the General Fund and Program Recreation Special Revenue Fund) for the fiscal year commencing the following January I. The operating budget includes proposed expenditures and the means of financing them. 2. Public hearings are conducted to obtain taxpayer comments. 3. The budget is legally enacted through passage of a resolution on a departmental basis and can be expended by each department based upon detailed budget estimates for individual expenditure accounts. 4. The City Admini~trator is authorized to transfer appropriations within any department budget. Additioual interdepartmental or interfund appropriations and deletions are or may by authorized by the City Council with fund (contingency) reserves or additioual revenues. 5. Formal budgetary integration is employed as a management control device during the year for the General Fund. 6. Legal debt obligation indentures determine the appropriation level and debt service tax levies for the Debt Service Funds. Supplementary budgets are adopted for the Proprietary Funds to determine and calculate user charges. These debt service and budget amounts represent general obligation bond indenture provisions and net income for operation and capital maintenance and are not reflected in the financial statements. CITY OF LINO LAKES, MINNESOTA NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS December 31,2015 Note 1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES <CONTINUED> E. LEGAL COMPLIANCE-BUDGETS (CONTINUED) 7. A capital improvement program is reviewed periodically by the City Council for the Capital Project Funds. However, appropriations for major projects are not adopted until the actual bid award of the improvement. The appropriations are not reflected in the financial statements. 8. Expenditures may not legally exceed budgeted appropriations at the department level unless approved by the City Council. Therefore, the legal level of budgetary control is at the department level (i.e. administration, community development, public safety, public services, and other). 9. The City Council may authorize transfers of budgeted amounts between City funds. F. CASH AND INVESTMENTS Cash and investment balances from all funds are pooled and invested to the extent available in investments authorized by Minnesota Statutes. Earnings from investments are allocated to individual funds on the basis of the fund's equity in the cash and investment pool. The City provides temporary advances to funds that have insufficient cash balances by means of an advance from another fund shown as interfund receivables in the advancing fund in the governmental fund financial statements, and an interfund payable in the fund with the deficit, until adequate resources are received. These interfund payables are eliminated for statement of net position presentation. Investments are stated at fair value and interest earnings are accrued at year-end. For purposes of the statement of cash flows the Proprietary Fund considers all highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. All of the cash and investments allocated to the proprietary fund types have original maturities of 90 days or less. Therefore, the entire balance in such fund types is considered cash equivalents. Permanently restricted cash and investments represents the principal and earnings portion of resources received that must be retained in a permanent fund. Only earnings from these funds may be used for purposes that support environmental maintenance and improvements. G. PROPERTY TAX CREDITS Property taxes on homestead property (as defined by State Statutes) are partially reduced by property tax credits. These credits are paid to the City by the State in lieu of taxes levied against homestead property. The State remits these credits through installments each year. These credits are recognized as revenue by the City at the time of collection. IV-20