(a) Within three weeks after the end of each month, the controller shall present to the council and city manager a financial statement of the City for the preceding month, which statement shall provide a comparison of the actual revenues and expenditures of each fund, including all the various budgeted funds compared to the budgeted amounts prepared on a basis of accounting generally accepted in the United States for local units of government.
(b) The controller shall also file a true copy of the financial statement with the city clerk, who shall keep and preserve it as public record and shall give access to it to every citizen of the City of Hamtramck at any time during the business hours of the day. Such copy shall be verified to the truthfulness and correctness of the facts stated therein, by the oath or affirmation of the controller. For the purpose of preparing the financial statement and list, the controller shall require every board, officer, and employee to file with him all information which he may deem necessary, and every such board, officer, and employee shall file with the controller the information at the time and in the manner as he may prescribe.
(c) On or before three months after July in each year, he shall make out and present to the council and city manager a financial statement of the City for the fiscal year ending on the 30th day of June of each year, consistent with accounting generally accepted in the United States for local units of government and complying with the Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act, MCL 141.425-428. He shall at other times, if directed by the council, furnish statements showing the condition of the several funds and accounts.
(d) He shall charge the city treasurer with the whole amount of taxes and assessments, special or general, levied for the City and placed in the treasurer’s hands for collection, crediting the various funds and accounts according to the various appropriations.
(e) He shall also charge the city treasurer with all sums received from licenses, rents, and other monies which are payable to the treasurer, and the various proceeds of all bonds, coupons, notes, leases, mortgages, bills receivable, or bills payable, or revenue of whatsoever nature. When any fund or appropriation has been exhausted by warrants already drawn, or by appropriations, liabilities, debts, and expenses actually made, incurred, or contracted for and to be paid out of such fund or appropriations, the controller shall advise the council thereof in writing at its next meeting and, he shall be personally liable to the City in an action brought in any court of law or in any suit in equity by the City or by any taxpayer of the city for the full amount or amounts of payments where no funds are available if he shall fail or neglect to so advise the council.
(f) He shall keep in his office a complete list of all the property - real, personal, and mixed - belonging to the city.
(g) He shall keep a record of all receipts, disbursements, debts, and liabilities of the city, in order that the amount of the monies and all of the liabilities of the City may at any time be known at his office. The controller shall exercise a general supervision over the financial concerns of the City.
(h) He shall be charged with the leasing, repairs, insurance, and general supervision of the City property not herein otherwise provided for, and for his information may require reports from all officials or persons having city property in charge or in their possession, and shall report the same when required by the council.
(i) He shall also perform such other duties as are prescribed by this charter or may be required by ordinance or resolution of the council.
(j) He shall keep on file in his office the city budget to which he shall give access to every taxpayer of the city at any time during the business hours of the day for inspection or taking copies. Within two weeks after his appointment he shall file with the city clerk a bond in such amount and with such sureties as shall be satisfactory to the council. The premium on the bond shall be paid by the City.
(k) He is authorized generally to administer oaths, affirmations, take affidavits, and to certify copies of all papers in his office.