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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />Required Supplemental Information <br />For the year ended June 30, 2016 <br /> <br /> <br />Budgets and Budgetary Accounting <br /> <br />The City adopts a budget annually for all governmental fund types. This budget is effective July 1 for the <br />ensuing fiscal year. From the effective date of the budget, which is adopted and controlled at the <br />department level, the amounts stated therein as proposed expenditures become appropriations to the <br />various City departments. The City Council may amend the budget by resolution during the fiscal year. <br />The City Manager is authorized to transfer budgeted amounts between departments and line items within <br />any fund; however, any revisions which alter the total expenditures of any fund must be approved by the <br />City Council. Transfers between funds must be approved by the City Council. All appropriations lapse at <br />year-end, unless otherwise authorized by the City Council and the City Manager, except for capital <br />improvement funds for which appropriations endure until the project is completed. The City did not <br />budget Proposition 1B – Local Streets and Roads Fund and Measure BB Fund. <br /> <br />Annual budgets are adopted on a basis consistent with generally accepted accounting principles except for <br />capital projects funds, which are adopted on a project length basis, which means budgets, are used until <br />the project’s completion for the entire project amount. <br /> <br />Under encumbrance accounting, purchase orders, contracts and other commitments for the expenditures <br />of monies are recorded in order to reserve that portion of the applicable appropriation. Encumbrance <br />accounting is employed as an extension of the formal budgetary process. Encumbrances outstanding at <br />year-end are carried over to the next fiscal year as part of that year’s budget resolution. <br /> <br />GAAP serves as the budgetary basis of accounting. <br /> <br />93