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<br />RESOLUTION NO. 4741 <br /> <br />A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF FUNDS <br />FROM THE RESERVE FOR ENCUMBRANCES TO DEPARTMENTS AND TO <br />NON-DEPARTMENTAL ACCOUNTS <br /> <br />The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that: <br /> <br />ORS 294.435(3) stipulates that "...appropriations...shall, as a minimum, contain one amount <br />for each organizational unit...of each fund. In addition, separate amounts shall be <br />appropriated in each fund for debt service, special payments, interfund revenue transfers, <br />capital outlay, operating expenses which cannot be allocated to an organizational unit...and <br />operating contingencies." <br /> <br />ORS 294.435(4) requires that" ...no greater expenditure...of public money shall be made for <br />any specific purpose than the amount appropriated therefor except as provided in ORS <br />294.450.... " <br /> <br />The City's annual budget provides for a Reserve for Encumbrances for purchase orders <br />outstanding on June 30, 2002. <br /> <br />The goods and services covered by the purchase orders will be received in Fiscal Year 2002- <br />2003. This resolution authorizes the transfer of funds from the Reserve for Encumbrances to <br />the respective departments holding the outstanding purchase orders and the transfer of any <br />excess funds therein to non-departmental accounts as reflected in Exhibit "A". <br /> <br />ORS 294.450(1) authorizes "...transfers of appropriations may be made within a given fund <br />when authorized by an official resolution...of the governing body." ORS 294.450(3) states <br />that "Transfers of appropriations or of appropriations and a like amount of budget resources <br />may be made from the general fund of the municipal corporation to any other fund when <br />authorized by an official resolution or ordinance of the governing body." <br /> <br />The expenditures related to the transfers indicated on Exhibit "A" attached hereto, and by <br />this reference incorporated herein, have been determined necessary for the efficient operation <br />of the City, and should not be delayed to the next fiscal year. <br /> <br />In order for the City to comply with ORS 294.435 (3 and 4) the transfers indicated on Exhibit <br />"A" attached hereto, must be authorized by the Council prior to the expenditure of the funds. <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, <br /> <br />BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EUGENE, a <br />Municipal Corporation of the State of Oregon, as follows: <br /> <br />Based upon the above findings, and in accordance with ORS 294.450, the Finance and Court <br />Services Executive Manager is authorized and directed to make the transfer of appropriations <br />as indicated on the attached Exhibit "A" in the amounts and for the purposes stated. <br /> <br />The foregoing resolution adopted this 14th day of October, 2002. <br /> <br />/f:2%~~ ~ Z;~ <br /> <br />City Recorder <br />