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CITY OF SANTAANA, CALIFORNIA <br />AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT SPECIAL REVENUE FUND <br />NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) <br />June 30, 2017 <br />2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED): <br />B. Measurement Focus and Basis of Accounting (Continued): <br />AQMD's financial statements are reported using the current financial resources measurement <br />focus and the modified accrual basis of accounting. Revenues are recognized as soon as they <br />are both measurable and available. Revenues are considered to be available when they are <br />collectible within the current period or soon enough thereafter to pay liabilities of the current <br />period. For this purpose, the government considers revenues to be available if they are collected <br />within 60 days of the end of the current fiscal period. Expenditures generally are recorded when <br />a liability is incurred, as under accrual accounting. <br />C. Budgetary Accounting: <br />The City's fiscal year begins on hily 1 of each year and ends June 30 the following year. On or <br />before the fifteenth of June of each year, the City Manager recommends and submits to the City <br />Council a proposed budget for the next ensuing fiscal year based on a detailed financial plan <br />prepared by the heads of the various offices, agencies and departments of the City and its <br />component units. Upon receipt of the proposed budget, the Council holds a public hearing <br />wherein the public is given an opportunity to be heard, after which the Council may make any <br />revisions deemed advisable. After the conclusion of the public hearing, the Council may make <br />modifications with the affirmative vote of at least a majority of its members. On or before the <br />thirty-first day of July, the City Council adopts the budget as amended by the affirmative vote <br />of at least a majority of its members. Upon final adoption, the budget is in effect for the ensuing <br />fiscal year and becomes the authority for the various offices, agencies, and departments to <br />expend subject to controls established by the City Charter. At any meeting after the adoption of <br />the budget, the City Council may amend or supplement the budget by affirmative vote of at <br />least two-thirds of the members so as to authorize the transfer of unused balances appropriated <br />for one purpose to another purpose, or to appropriate available revenue not included in the <br />budget. Where appropriations are made to offices, departments, or agencies for more than one <br />activity or program, "appropriations" are considered in the aggregate with respect to total <br />expenditures authorized for that office, department or agency within each fund, limited to <br />purposes for which the revenues of such funds are to be spent. The City Manager is authorized <br />to make revisions among the items included in such appropriations if, in his opinion, such <br />revisions are necessary and proper. Budgetary control exists at the department level. Council <br />action is necessary for transfers between departments/agencies or transfers between funds. <br />During the fiscal year, all budget and supplemental amendments were necessary and made in a <br />legally permissible manner. <br />-7- <br />19D-16 <br />