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City of San Leandro Notes to Basic Financial Statements For the year ended June 30, 2012 47 NOTE 1 - SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES The basic financial statements of the City of San Leandro, California, (City) have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) as applied to governmental agencies in the United States. The Governmental Accounting Standards Boards (GASB) is the accepted standard setting body for establishing governmental accounting and financial reporting principles. The more significant of the City’s accounting policies are described below. A. Financial Reporting Entity The City of San Leandro, California (City) was incorporated in 1872 and is situated between the cities of Oakland and Hayward in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The City operates under the Mayor -Council-Manager form of government created by charter in 1978 and provides the following services: public safety (police, fire, disaster preparedness and hazardous waste disposal), highways and streets, sanitation, health services, public improvements, planning and zoning and general administration services. The City is governed by a seven-member council elected by City residents. The City is legally separate and fiscally independent, which means it can issue debt, set and modify budgets and fees and sue or be sued. As req uired by generally accepted accounting principles, the financial statements include the financial activities of the City - the primary government - and its component units. Component units are legally separate organizations for which the elected officials of the primary government are financially accountable. In addition, component units can be other organizations for which the primary government’s exclusion would cause the reporting entity’s financial statements to be misleading or incomplete. The blended component units discussed below are included in the City of San Leandro’s basic financial statements in which the City Council functions as the governing board: The Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Leandro (Agency) was established to assist in the clearance and rehabilitation of City areas determined to be in a declining condition. The Agency has all accounting and administrative functions performed by City staff and the Agency receives advances from the City to finance operations. The financial activities of the Agency have been included in the Redevelopment Agency and Low and Moderate Income Housing Capital Projects Funds in the accompanying basic financial statements. As discussed in Note 18, the Agency was dissolved effective January 31, 2012. The City of San Leandro Parking Authority (Parking Authority) was established to issue debt for downtown parking structures and lots. There are no financial activities to be accounted for in the Parking Authority Debt Service Fund in this fiscal year. The San Leandro Public Financing Authority (Financing Authority) was established to issue debt for the Seismic Retrofitting capital project and other community related financing programs. The financial activities are accounted for in the San Leandro Public Financing Authority Debt Service Fund in the accompanying basic financial statements. The above component units are included in the City’s basic financial statements using the blended method since the governing body of these component units are substantially the same as the governing body of the City and these component units provide services entirely to the City. Separate financial statements are not issued for the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Leandro.