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Julie 20, 2011 (Regular Meeting) Page 515 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). 13. The County Manager may reduce revenue projections consistent with prevailing economic conditions, and also reduce expenditures correspondingly. 14. Changes to Cabarrus County fees and charges as presented in budget workshops will be effective July 1, 2011 and incorporated into the appropriate fee schedules. Section IV. This ordinance and the budget documents shall be the basis for the financial plan for the County of Cabarrus for the 2011 -2012 fiscal year. The County Manager and the Budget Officer 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. Adopted this the 20th day of June, 2011. /s/ H. Jay White, Sr. H. Jay White, Sr., Chairman /s/ Kay Honeycutt Kay Honeycutt, Clerk to the Board Budget Ordinance - Fire Tax & Insurance Districts Chairman White briefly reviewed the consensus of the Board at the June Agenda work_ session regarding tax increases for the rural fire district as follows : in favor of granting a 1 cent tax increase for Northeast and a 2 cent increase for Odell; and, not in favor of granting tax increases for Harrisburg and Mt. Pleasant.