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CITY OF LINO LAKES, MINNESOTA NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS December 31, 2016 by the City because it is at present not 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: 1. 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 1. 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 expended by each department based upon detailed budget estimates for individual expenditure accounts. 4. The City Administrator is authorized to transfer appropriations within any department budget. Additional interdepartmental or interfund appropriations and deletions are or may be authorized by the City Council with fund (contingency) reserves or additional 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. 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 authorized investments. Investment income is allocated to individual funds on the basis of the fund's equity in the cash and investment pool. Investments are stated at fair value, except for investments in external investment pools that meet GASB 79 requirements, which are stated at amortized cost. Interest earnings are accrued at year-end. 48