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It shall be the duty of the city council to enforce strictly the provisions of the budget. They shall not approve any order upon the city for any expenditure unless an appropriation has been made in the budget resolution, nor for any expenditure covered by the budget resolution unless there is a sufficient unexpended balance left after deducting the total past expenditures and the sum of all outstanding orders and encumbrances. No officer or employee of the city shall place any order or make any purchase except for a purpose and to the amount authorized in the budget resolution.
(Ord. 556, passed 6-27-2016)
After the budget resolutions have been adopted, the council shall have no power to increase the amounts fixed in the budget resolution, by the insertion of new items or otherwise, beyond the estimated revenues, unless the actual receipts exceed the estimates and then not beyond the actual receipts. The council may at any time, by resolution approved by a majority of the full council, reduce the sums appropriated for any purpose by the budget resolution, or authorize the transfer of sums from unencumbered balances of appropriations in the budget resolution to other purposes.
(Ord. 556, passed 6-27-2016)
The council may include an emergency appropriation as a part of the budget but not to exceed ten per cent (10%) of the total budget. A transfer from the emergency appropriation to any other appropriation shall be made only by a vote of a majority of the full council and shall be used only for the purposes designated by the council.
No disbursement of city funds shall be made except by check signed by authorized persons and specifying the purposes for which the disbursement is made and the fund from which it is drawn. No such check shall be issued until there is money to the credit of the fund from which it is to be paid sufficient to pay it together with all outstanding encumbrances upon the fund. No such check shall be issued until the claim to which it relates has been supported by an itemized bill, payroll, or time-sheet approved and signed by the responsible city officer who vouches for its correctness and reasonableness. The particular fund out of which payment is to be paid shall be noted on each contract requiring the payment of money by the city. The council may by ordinance make further regulations for the safekeeping and disbursement of the funds of the city.
(Ord. 556, passed 6-27-2016)
Subd. 1. There shall be maintained in the city treasury a general fund for the payment of such expenses as the council may deem proper. Into this fund shall be paid all moneys levied for this fund and all moneys not required to be placed in some other fund.
Subd. 2. There shall also be maintained in the city treasury such other funds, or division of funds, as the budget shall require or the council shall direct. There shall also be maintained in the city treasury such other funds or division of funds as are required by law, ordinance or resolution.
Except as provided in sections 7.14 and 7.15, no obligations shall be issued to pay current expenses, but the council may issue and sell obligations for any other municipal purpose in accordance with law and within the limitations prescribed by law. Except in the case of obligations for which an election is not required by this Charter or by state law, no such obligations shall be issued and sold without the approval of the majority of the electors of the city voting on the question at a general or special election.
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