§ 2.14.050. Finance director/city treasurer—-Powers and duties.

A.

The finance director/city treasurer is the chief accounting officer of the city who shall have charge of the administration of financial affairs of the city under the direction of the city manager. The finance director/city treasurer shall be the ex officio tax collector and license collector of the city.

B.

Except as otherwise provided in this code, the finance director/city treasurer shall perform the duties prescribed by the general laws and statutes of the state pertaining to the city treasurer. The finance director/city treasurer shall perform the following additional duties:

1.

Prepare annually for the city manager a proposed budget of the city for the ensuing fiscal year;

2.

Supervise and be responsible for the disbursement of all public moneys, and have control over all expenditures to ensure that budget appropriations are not exceeded;

3.

Audit and approve before payment all bills, invoices, payrolls and other evidences of claims, demands or charges against the city government and, with the advice of the city attorney, determine the regularity, legality and correctness of such claims, demands or charges;

4.

Inspect and audit any accounts or records of financial transactions which may be maintained in any office, department or agency of the city government apart from or subsidiary to the accounts kept in his or her office;

5.

Maintain a general accounting system for the city government and each of its offices, departments and agencies;

6.

Require reports of the receipts and disbursements from each receiving and expending agency of the city government to be made at such intervals as may be required;

7.

Submit to the city manager a monthly statement of all receipts and disbursements in sufficient detail to show the exact financial condition of the city, and submit to the city manager at the end of each fiscal year a complete financial statement and report for the preceding year;

8.

Collect all taxes, utility charges, license fees, and other revenues of the city, or for whose collection the city is responsible, and receive all taxes or other money receivable by the city;

9.

Supervise the keeping of current inventories of all property of the city;

10.

Estimate, plan and program the city's financial activities;

11.

Perform such other duties not in conflict with his or her mandatory duties as prescribed in a city job description or which the city manager may from time to time assign.

(Ord. 641 § 2 (part), 1969: prior code § 1300.4)

(Ord. No. 1145, § 1(J), 10-2-2012)