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City of Redwood City 6.1.D. - Page 101 Notes to the Basic Financial Statements For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016 NOTE 10 — NET POSITION AND FUND BALANCES (CONTINUED) B. Fund Balances In the fund financial statements, fund balances represent the net current assets of each fund. Net current assets generally represent a fund's cash and receivables, less its liabilities. As prescribed by GASB Statement No. 54, governmental funds report fund balance in classifications based primarily on the extent to which the City is bound to honor constraints on the specific purposes for which amounts in the funds can be spent. As of June 30, 2016, fund balances for governmental funds are made up of the following: Nonspendable Fund Balance — includes amounts that are (a) not in spendable form, or (b) legally or contractually required to be maintained intact. The "not in spendable form" criterion includes items that are not expected to be converted to cash, for example: inventories, prepaid amounts, and long-term loans receivable. Restricted Fund Balance — includes amounts that can be spent only for the specific purposes stipulated by external resource providers, constitutionally or through enabling legislation. Restrictions may effectively be changed or lifted only with the consent of resource providers. Committed Fund Balance — includes amounts that can only be used for the specific purposes determined by a formal action, adopting a resolution, of the City's highest level of decision-making authority, the City Council. Commitments may be changed or lifted only by the City adopting another resolution, as a resolution imposed the constraint originally. Assigned Fund Balance — comprises amounts intended to be used by the City for specific purposes that are neither restricted nor committed. Intent is expressed by the City Council or City Manager, to which the City Council has delegated the authority through a resolution, to assign amounts to be used for specific purposes. Pursuant to the authority delegated by City Council, the City Manager determines the amount of assigned fund balances, which includes items such as encumbrances, and constrained amounts when it is the City's intent to use proceeds or collections for a specific purpose, and residual fund balances, if any, of special revenue, capital projects and debt service funds which have not been restricted or committed. Unassigned Fund Balance — is the residual classification for the general fund and includes all amounts not contained in the other classifications. Unassigned amounts are technically available for any purpose. In other governmental funds, if expenditures exceed amounts restricted, committed, or assigned, the negative amount is reflected as negative unassigned fund balance. Within the unassigned fund balance of the general fund, the City Council has established a minimum balance representing a level not less than 15%, nor more than 20% of estimated general fund revenues. In circumstances when an expenditure is made for a purpose for which amounts are available in multiple fund balance classifications, fund balance is generally depleted in the order of restricted, committed, assigned, and unassigned. 74