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CITY OF LINO LAKES, MINNESOTA NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS December 31, 2013 Note 1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) B. BASIC FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) 2. Fund Financial Statements (Continued) Area and Unit Charge Fund The area and unit charge fund accounts for the collection of water and sewer unit charges to be used for debt payments and construction of governmental infrastructure. The City reports the following major proprietary funds: Water Fund The water fund accounts for customer water service charges that are used to finance water operating expenses. Sewer Fund The sewer fund accounts for customer water service charges that are used to finance water operating expenses. Additionally, the City reports the following fiduciary funds: Agency Funds - to account for assets held as an agent for individuals, private organizations, other governmental units, and/or other funds. The City's agency fund accounts for pass-through contractor's deposits relating to prospective developments. C. MEASUREMENT FOCUS AND BASIS OF ACCOUNTING The government -wide and proprietary fund financial statements are reported using the economic resources measurement focus and the accrual basis of accounting. Agency funds, which are included in the Fiduciary Funds, do not have a measurement focus. Revenues are recorded when earned, and expenses are recorded when a liability is incurred, regardless of the timing of related cash flows. Property taxes are recognized as revenues in the year for which they are levied. Grants and similar items are recognized as revenue as soon as all eligibility requirements imposed by the provider have been met. Governmental fund financial statements are reported using the current financial resources measurement focus and the modified accrual basis of accounting. Revenues are recognized as soon as they are both measurable and available. The City considers all revenues to be available if they are collected within 60 days after the end of the current period. Property and other taxes, licenses, and interest are all considered to be susceptible to accrual. Expenditures are recorded when the related fund liability is incurred. except for principal and interest on general long-term debt, compensated absences, and claims and judgments, which are recognized as expenditures to the extent that they have matured. Proceeds of general long-term debt and acquisitions under capital leases are reported as other financing sources. CITY OF LINO LAKES, MINNESOTA NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS December 31, 2013 Note 1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (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 privleges 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 Fund 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: 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 be 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 by 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.