CC Resolution No. 4212 ~
RESOLUTION N0. 4212
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CUPERTINO
ADOPTING AN OPERATING AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET FOR FISCAL
YEAR 1976-1977 BY RATIFYING ESTIMATES OI' REVENUES TO BE
RECEIVED IN EACH FUND AND APPROPRIATING MONIES THEREFROM
~ TO VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS, COP~IISSIONS, ACTIVITIES AND
ACCOUNTS AND SETTING FORTH CONDITIONS OF ADMINISTERING
~ SAID BUDGET
WHEREAS, the orderly administration of municipal government is dependent•
on the establishment of a sound fiscal policy of maintaining a proper ratio
of expenditures within anticipated revenues and available monies; and
WHEREAS, the extent of any project or program and the degree of its accom-
plishment, as well as the efficiency of performing assigned duties and responsi-
bilities, is likewise dependent on the monies made available for that purpose;
WHEREAS, the City Manager has submitted his estimates of anticipated reve-
nues and fund balances, has recommended the allocation of monies to various com-
missions and departments for specified functions and activities;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council does hereby adopt the
following sections as a part of~ its fiscal policy;
Section l. The estimates of available fund balances and anticipated
revenues to be received in each of the several funds during fiscal year 1976-1977
as submitted by the City Manager in his proposed Operating and Construction Budget
and as have been amended during the Budget study sessions are hereby ratified;
Section 2. There is appropriated from each of the several funds the
sum of money as has been determined during the Budget study sessions to each de-
partment for the purposesaas ~expressed;,arid ~esfi~ma~ted~for~~.eaah~;activity;~ subc~'ect
to the conditions as set forth in Section 3, as hereinafter described;
Section 3. For orderly and proper administration of the Operating and
Construction Budget and of the monies appropriated in Section 2 above, the fol-
lowing conditions, authorizations and restrictions shall apply;
Section 3.1. No appropriation shall be encumbered nor shall any
expenditure be made in excess of that appropriated except as hereinafter pro-
vided;
Section 3.2,.The City Manager is hereby ~authorized to transfer
any unencumbered amount from one major object account within a program which is
defined as Employee Services, Supplies and Other Services or Capital Outlay, to
any other major object account within the same program when, in his opinion, such
becomes necessary for administrative purposes;
Section 3.3. The City Council reserves the right to transfer any
unencumbered appropriation from one program to another program after recommenda-
tion to do so has been submitted to it by the City Manager or to appropriate on
its own volition any additional sums of money to any major object account, line
item account, function or program as it may deem necessary or ~desiratil~e;
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Section 3.4. The Director of Administrative Services is hereby
authorized to transfer any unencumbered appropriation from one line item account
to another line item account within the same activity or from one line item
account to another line item account within a different activity within the same
function when such is necessary to prevent an over-encumbrance or an over-expendi-
ture in any one line item account; provided, however, that such transfer shall be
only after the concurrence of the affected department head;
Section 4. The City Manager shall cause to be prepared a budget docu-
ment incorporating therein the amounts appropriated in Section 2 above, the esti-
mates of available fund balances and anticipated revenues ratified in Section 1
above, the detail accounts and estimated amounts comprising the total for each of
the major object accounts which when combined from the amount appropriated to each
function and such other detail and funds activity that will provide an informative
and useful working tool in administering fiscal policy;
Section 5. The estimates of available account and fund balances and
the anticipated revenues and expenditures of the City of Cupertino Water Utility
are excluded from the foregoing sections of this resolution and which detail is to
be included in a separate budget document from that referred to in Section 4 above.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Cupertino this 19th day of July, 1976, by the following vote:
Vote Members of the City Council
AYES: Jackson, 0'Keefe, Nellis, Frolich
NOES: None
ABSENT: Meyers ~
ABSTAIN:None
APPROVED:•
/s/ Donald A. Frolich
Mayor, City of Cupertino
Pro Tempore
ATTEST:
/s/ Wm. E. Ryder
City Clerk
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