09.07.2021 Views

Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 2020

The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report includes all funds of the city. This report includes all government activities, organizations, and functions for which the City is financially accountable.

The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report includes all funds of the city. This report includes all government activities, organizations, and functions for which the City is financially accountable.

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

Committed fund balance includes fund balance amounts that are constrained for specific<br />

purposes that are internally imposed by the City through formal action of the highest level of<br />

decision making authority. Committed fund balance is reported pursuant to resolution passed<br />

by the City Council. This classification includes campus activity funds, local special revenue funds<br />

and potential litigation, claims and judgments.<br />

Assigned fund balance includes fund balance amounts that are self-imposed by the City to be<br />

used for a particular purpose. Fund balance can be assigned by the City Council, the City<br />

Manager, or the Finance Director. This classification includes insurance deductibles,<br />

encumbrances, program start-up costs, projected budget deficit for subsequent years and other<br />

legal uses.<br />

Unassigned fund balance includes residual positive fund balance within the General Fund which<br />

has not been classified within the other above mentioned categories. Unassigned fund balance<br />

may also include negative balances for any governmental fund if expenditures exceed amounts<br />

restricted, committed, or assigned for those specific purposes.<br />

Net Position Flow Assumption<br />

Sometimes the City will fund outlays for a particular purpose from both restricted (e.g., restricted<br />

bond or grant proceeds) and unrestricted resources. In order to calculate the amounts to report as<br />

restricted – net position and unrestricted – net position in the government-wide and proprietary<br />

fund financial statements, a flow assumption must be made about the order in which the resources<br />

are considered to be applied. It is the City’s policy to consider restricted – net position to have been<br />

depleted before unrestricted – net position is applied.<br />

Fund Balance Flow Assumption<br />

Sometimes the City will fund outlays for a particular purpose from both restricted and unrestricted<br />

resources (the total of committed, assigned, and unassigned fund balance). In order to calculate<br />

the amounts to report as restricted, committed, assigned, and unassigned fund balance in the<br />

governmental fund financial statements a flow assumption must be made about the order in which<br />

the resources are considered to be applied. It is the City’s policy to consider restricted fund balance<br />

to have been depleted before using any of the components of unrestricted fund balance. Further,<br />

when the components of unrestricted fund balance can be used for the same purpose, committed<br />

fund balance is depleted first, followed by assigned fund balance. Unassigned fund balance is applied<br />

last.<br />

II.<br />

STEWARDSHIP, COMPLIANCE, AND ACCOUNTABILITY<br />

Budgetary Control<br />

<strong>Annual</strong> budgets are adopted on a basis consistent with generally accepted accounting principles for<br />

all governmental funds. The annual budget for the utility fund is prepared on the budgetary basis of<br />

accounting. All annual appropriations lapse at fiscal year-end. The legal level of budgetary control<br />

is the fund level.<br />

III.<br />

DEPOSITS AND INVESTMENTS<br />

Statutes authorize the City to invest in obligations of the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Agencies, municipal<br />

bonds, managed public fund investment pools, and certificates of deposit The Interlocal Cooperation<br />

Act, Chapter 791 of the Texas Government Code, and the Public Funds Investment Act, Chapter<br />

2256 of the Texas Government Code (the “Act”), provide for the creation of public funds investment<br />

pools, such as Texas Short-term Reserve Fund (“TexStar”), Local Government Investment<br />

Cooperative (“LOGIC”), TexasDAILY, and Lone Star Investment Pool (“Lone Star”), through which<br />

political subdivisions and other entities may invest public funds.<br />

TexPool, TexSTAR and LOGIC have a redemption notice period of one day and may redeem daily.<br />

The investment pool’s authority may only impose restrictions on redemptions in the event of a<br />

general suspension of trading on major securities markets, general banking moratorium or national<br />

state of emergency that affects the pool’s liquidity.<br />

29

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!