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Cabarrus County, North Carolina Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended June 30, 2011 D. Budgetary Data The County's budgets are adopted as required by the North Carolina General Statutes. An annual budget is adopted for the General Fund, the Landfill Enterprise Fund, the Cabarrus Arena and Events Center Special Revenue Fund, the Fire District Special Revenue Fund, the Emergency Telephone Special Revenue Fund, the Workers Compensation Internal Service Fund, and the Self- Insured Hospitalization Internal Service Fund. All annual appropriations lapse at the fiscal year -end. Project ordinances are adopted for the remaining special revenue funds and the capital projects funds. The County operates under a financial plan for two internal service funds, the Workers Compensation Fund and the Self- Insured Hospitalization Fund. The respective financial plans were adopted by the governing board at the time the County's budget ordinance was approved, as required by the General Statutes. All budgets are prepared using the modified accrual basis of accounting. The County Manager and /or Finance Director, or designee is hereby authorized to transfer appropriations within or between funds, or modify revenue and expenditure projections, as contained herein under the following conditions: 1. The Budget Director may transfer amounts between objects of expenditure within a function. 2. The County Manager may transfer amounts up to $100,000 between functions of the same fund. 3. The County Manager may not transfer any amounts between funds or from any contingency appropriation within any fund without action of the Board of Commissioners, except as specified below for budget shortfalls and change orders. 4. The County Manager may transfer amounts between contingency funds which are set aside for a specific project for budgetary shortfalls or upon the appropriate approval of a change order. 5. The County Manager is authorized to transfer funds from the General Fund or Capital Reserve Fund to the appropriate fund for projects approved within the Capital Improvement Plan for the current fiscal year. 6. Additional authority is granted to the Finance Director or designee to transfer amounts within and between funds for the sole purpose of funding salary and benefits adjustments consistent with the Cabarrus County Personnel Management Policy and the Cabarrus County Personnel Ordinance. 7. Upon notification of funding increases or decreases to existing grants or revenues, or the award of grants or revenues, the Manager or Finance Officer may adjust budgets to match, including grants that require a County match for which funds are available. 8. The Manager, Finance Director, or designee may adjust debt financing from estimated projections to actual funds received. 9. The County Manager may enter into and execute change orders or amendments to construction contracts in amounts less than $90,000 when the appropriate annual budget or capital project ordinance contains sufficient appropriated but unencumbered funds. 10. The County Manager may award and execute contracts which are not required to be bid or which G.S. 143 -131 allows to be let on informal bids so long as the annual budget or appropriate capital project ordinance contains sufficient appropriated but unencumbered funds for such purposes. 11. The County Manager may execute contracts with outside agencies to properly document budgeted appropriations to such agencies where G.S. 153 A- 248(b), 259, 449 and any similar statutes require such contracts. 12. The County Manager may reject formal bids when deemed appropriate and in the best interest of Cabarrus County pursuant to G.S. 143- 129(a). 42 Attachment number 1 1 -3 Page 164