Item 36 - Proposed Voter Ballot Measure(s) for the November 8, 2022 General Municipal Election to Amend the City Charter

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#43197v1 Sec. 613. - Claims—Formalities; treasury payment warrants. Any claim against the City shall be in writing and may be in the form of a bill, invoice, payroll, or formal demand. The director of finance, with approval of the City Manager, may prescribe the format, or forms, on in which claims against the City shall be presented. to him . Each such claim shall be presented to the director of finance department. The director of finance shall prescribe internal controls for examination and audit of each claim, who shall examine and audit it. If the claim is correct in all respects, has not previously been paid nor certified for payment, is provided for by an appropriation or legally enforceable court or administrative order for the purpose or object that gave rise to it, and if sufficient funds for the payment thereof remain unencumbered in such appropriation if applicable, and if the claim is otherwise legally due and payable, the director of finance shall so certify on the original form evidencing the claim and shall authorize payment from draw his warrant on the treasury, and against the proper fund, for the payment thereof. All claims certified for payment by the director of finance, and payments warrants drawn by the finance director him for the payment thereof, shall be transmitted by the finance director him to the City Manager together with a list of such payments warrants payable from each fund, showing for each payment,warrant the number, date, and amount of the payment warrant and the name of the payee. The City Manager may approve or disallow any of the claims so certified for payment. Any person dissatisfied with the refusal of the director of finance and/or the City Manager to approve any claim, in whole or in part, may present such claim to the City Council. The City Council, after examination into the matter, may approve or disapprove the claim in whole or in part, and, if properly payable under an existing appropriation, may order the director of finance to make payment of the claim or portion thereof draw his warrant on the treasury in payment thereof. For any such claim for which no provision, by way of appropriation, exists, but which is approved for payment by the City Council, appropriation by the City Council shall be made therefor before the director of finance is ordered to make payment draw his warrant in payment thereof. Payment dueWarrants on the City treasury which are not paid for lack of funds shall be registered. All registered payments warrants shall be paid in the order of their registration when funds therefor are available and shall bear interest from date of registration at such rate as shall be fixed by the City Council by resolution.