2018 City of Shakopee Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

CITY OF SHAKOPEE NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS DECEMBER 31, 2018

NOTE 1 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) D. Assets, Deferred Outflows of Resources, Liabilities, Deferred Inflows of Resources and Net Position or Equity (Continued) 14. Fund Equity a. Classification In the fund financial statements, governmental funds report fund classifications that comprise a hierarchy based primarily on the extent to which the City is bound to honor constraints on the specific purpose for which amounts in those funds can be spent. Non-spendable fund balances include amounts that cannot be spent because they are not in spendable form. Amounts that are restricted to specific purposes either by a) constraints placed on the use of resources by creditors, grantors, contributors, or laws or regulations of other governments or b) imposed by law through enabling legislation are classified as restricted fund balances. Amounts that can only be used for specific purposes pursuant to constraints imposed by the City Council (highest level of decision making authority) through resolution are classified as committed fund balances. Amounts that are constrained by the City’s intent to be used for specific purposes but are neither restricted nor committed are classified as assigned fund balances. Assignments are made by the City’s Finance Director based on the City Council’s direction. Positive unassigned fund balance represents fund balance that has not been assigned to other funds and that has not been restricted, committed or assigned to a specific purpose in the General Fund. For governmental funds other than the General Fund, if expenditures incurred for specific purposes exceed the amounts that are restricted, committed, or assigned to those purposes, it may be necessary to report a negative unassigned fund balance in that fund. The City’s policy is to consider unrestricted fund balance to be spent by City Council action, appropriations or emergency situations. The City applies restricted resources first when expenditures are incurred for purposes for which either restricted or unrestricted (committed, assigned and unassigned) are available. Similarly, within unrestricted fund balance, committed amounts are reduced first followed by assigned and then unassigned amounts when expenditures are incurred for purposes for which amounts in any of the unrestricted fund balance classifications could be used. b. Minimum Fund Balance The City’s target General Fund balance is to maintain an unassigned level between 40% (minimum) and 45% of budgeted expenditures. This level is to provide working capital for cash flow, expected decline in revenues and unforeseen expenditures such as natural disasters. Replenishing fund balance when it falls below the target level shall be accomplished by interfund transfers or budgeting for expenditures and other uses to be less than revenues or other sources over a period not to exceed three years.

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