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Inventories and Miscellaneous Prepaids
- This represents that portion of fund balance segregated for year-end
inventories of supplies and prepaid items such as rent and postage; these are current assets and do not represent available
spendable resources.
Assets Held for Resale
- This represents that portion of fund balance segregated for assets that are intended to be resold
and not used in operation.
Perpetual Maintenance
– This represents Cemetery resources that are required to be retained in perpetuity for
maintenance of the City’s three cemeteries.
Restricted Fund Balance
– This classification can be spent only for specific purposes, as stipulated by external resource
providers and creditors, by constitution or through enabling legislation that is legally enforceable by an external party.
Enabling legislation that creates a revenue stream must also stipulate the purposes for which that revenue can be used.
Restrictions may only be changed by parties external to the entity or imposed by law.
Restricted for Stabilization by State Statute
- This represents the amount of fund balance which cannot be appropriated
by the governing board. North Carolina General Statutes (G.S. 159-8(a)) limit the amount that each local government
may appropriate to the sum of cash and cash equivalents/investments, less the sum of liabilities, encumbrances and
unearned revenues arising from cash receipts as those amounts stand at the close of the preceding Fiscal Year.
Encumbrances represent commitments outstanding at June 30, 2016 related to purchase orders and unperformed
contracts.
Restricted for Debt Covenants
– This fund balance is derived from debt proceeds and is governed by certain covenants
contained in financing agreements and is mainly restricted to finance major capital improvements.
Restricted for Highway Improvements
– This represents the amount of fund balance which can only be spent on streets,
such as Powell Bill.
The Powell Bill Fund is reported as a Special Revenue Fund for reporting purposes and related
capital expenditures are also reported in the State Highway Allocation Capital Project Fund. These funds were
established to account for Powell Bill Funds which are derived from a one and three-fourths cents per gallon motor fuel
tax. The State of North Carolina collects these monies and returns a proportionate share to local governments based on
local street mileage and population. Expenditures from this fund are restricted to specific highway construction and
maintenance costs.
Restricted for Culture and Recreation
– This represents fund balance restricted by outside parties to be used for specific
culture and recreation projects.
Committed Fund Balance
– The portion of fund balance that can only be used for specific purposes imposed by a formal
action in a majority vote by a quorum of the City of Greensboro’s governing body (highest level of decision–making
authority). The governing body can, by adoption of a resolution prior to the end of the year, commit fund balance. Once
adopted, the limitation imposed by the resolution remains in place until a similar action is taken (the adoption of another
resolution) to remove or revise the limitation. These amounts are not subject to legal enforceability by external parties, as in
restricted; however, amounts cannot be used for any other purpose unless the governing body removes or changes the
limitation by taking the same form of action employed to previously impose the limitation. Formal action to commit an
amount to a specific purpose must be made prior to the end of the Fiscal Year. The actual amount, however, may be
computed after the year end as part of the preparation of the financial statements.
Committed for 911 Program
– This portion of fund balance represents amounts committed to the continued operations of
the Guilford Metro 911 Emergency Telephone System.
Committed for Police Separation Allowance
– This portion of fund balance will be used for the Law Enforcement
Officers’ Special Separation Allowance obligations.
Committed for Special Tax Districts
– This represents the portion of fund balance committed by the board for special tax
districts, primarily derived from specific property taxes.
Committed for Neighborhood Development
- This portion of fund balance represents amounts committed to housing
partnership and community development to fund low and moderate income housing initiatives, primarily derived from a
specific property tax.