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June 16, 2014 (Regular Meeting) expenditure within a function. Page 2095 2. The County Manager may transfer amounts between objects of expenditures and revenues without limitation. 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 Designee may adjust budgets to match, including grants that require a County match for which funds are available. S. The Manager, Finance Director, or designee may create debt financing amendments from estimated projections upon approval by the Board of Commissioners of the debt financing and adjust as needed upon closing. 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 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) . 13. The County Manager may reduce revenue projections consistent with prevailing economic conditions, and also reduce expenditures correspondingly. C. The appropriations for Cabarrus County Schools and Kannapolis City Schools have been allocated by category. Cabarrus County Schools and Kannapolis City Schools must obtain the approval of the Board of Commissioners for any amendment to their respective budgets which would increase or decrease the amount of County appropriations allocated by category by more than ten percent. Section IV. This ordinance and the budget documents shall be the basis for the financial plan for the County of Cabarrus for the 2014 -2015 fiscal year. The County Manager and the Finance Director shall administer the budget. The Finance Director shall establish and maintain all records, which are in concurrence with this budget and budget ordinance and the appropriate statutes of the State of North Carolina. Funds appropriated in the FY 2013 -2014 Budget and encumbered on .June 30, 2014 shall be authorized as part of the Budget Appropriation by adoption of this