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of control and accounting for City activities other than activities author- ized or contemplated by special funds. All revenues and receipts which are not by this Charter, stete law, or ordinance pledged for special pur- poses shall be credited to the General Fund. The City Council shall maintain a revolving fund to be known as the "Stabilization Fund", for the purpose of placing the payment of running expenses of the City during the fiscal year on a cash basis. A reserve shall be built up in this fund from any available sources in an amount which the City Council deems sufficient with which to meet all lawful demands against the City for tho first five months, or other neces- sary period, of the succeeding fiscal year prior to the receipt of ad valorem tax revenues. Transfers may be made by the City Council from such fund to any other fund or funds of such sum or sums as may be required for the purpose of placing such funds, as nearly as possible on · cash basis. All moneys so transferred from the Stabilization Fund shall be returned thereto before the end of the fiscal year. Section 611. FUNDS: CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUNDS. A fund for capital improvements generally is hereby created, to be known as the "Capital Improvement Fund". The City Council may. create by ordinance a special fund or funds for · special capital improvement purpose. The City Council may levy and collect taxes for capital im- provements end may include in tho ennual tax levy a levy for such purposes, in which event it must apportion and appropriate to eny such fund or funds tho moneys der;rod from such levy. it may not, in mak- ing such levy, exceed the maximum tax rate provided for in this Charter, unless authorized by the affirmative votes of a maiorlty of the e~ectors voting on the proposltion at any election at which such ques- tion is submitted. The number of years in which such increased levy is to be made shall be specified In such proposition. The City Council may transfer, subject to the provisions of this Charter, to any such fund any unencumbered surplus funds remelning Qn hand in the City et any time. Once created, such fund shall remain inviolate for the purpose for which it was created, and if for a special capital improvement, then for such purpose only, unless the use of such fund for some other purpose is authorized by the effirmatlve votes of · majority of the electors vot- ing on such proposition at · general or speclsl election at which such proposition is submitted. If the purpose for which eny capital improvement fund has been created has been accomplished, the City Council may transfer any un- expended or unencumbered surplus remaining in such fund to the fund for capital improvements generafly, established by this Charter. Section 612. FUNDS: WORKING CAPITAL REVOLVING FUNDS. The City Council may provide, by ordinance, for the establishment end maintenance of working cap~t,,I funds for budgeted activities which are largely of a service nature for off~ces, departments, or agencies of the City. Such funds shall be operated on · revolving fund bisis. Section 613. CLAIMS AND TREASURY WARRANTS. Any claim against the City shall be in writing and may he in the form of a bill.