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6.1.D. - Page 64 Notes to the Basic Financial Statements For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016 NOTE 1 — SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) Fiduciary funds — These funds are used to account for assets held by the City in a trustee capacity or as an agent for individuals, private organizations, other governmental units, and/or other funds. The City maintains one private purpose trust fund to account for activities of the Successor Agency to the former Redevelopment Agency. The City also maintains five agency funds - Employee Benefit Plans Fund, Pacific Shores Community Facilities District Fund, the Shores Transportation Improvement District Fund, the One Marina Community Facilities District Fund, and the Community Benefit Improvement District Fund - as an agent of the bondholders, City employees, or the Downtown Redwood City Community Benefit Improvement District. D. Basis of Accounting The government -wide and proprietary fund financial statements are reported using the economic resources measurement focus and the full accrual basis of accounting. Revenues are recorded when earned and expenses are recorded at the time liabilities are incurred, regardless of when the related cash flows take place. Governmental funds are reported using the current financial resources measurement focus and the modified accrual basis of accounting. Under this method, revenues are recognized when measurable and available. The City considers all revenues reported in the governmental funds to be available if the revenues are collected within 90 days after year-end. The City's fiduciary funds consist of one private purpose trust fund and agency funds which use the accrual basis of accounting. The private purpose trust fund uses the economic resources measurement focus, whereas the agency funds do not have a measurement focus. Expenditures are recorded when the related fund liability is incurred, except for principal and interest on general long-term debt, claims and judgments, and compensated absences, which are recognized as expenditures to the extent they have matured. General capital asset acquisitions are reported as expenditures in governmental funds. Proceeds of general long-term debt and acquisitions under capital leases are reported as other financing sources. Non-exchange transactions, in which the City gives or receives value without directly receiving or giving equal value in exchange, include property taxes, grants, entitlements, and donations. On an accrual basis, revenue from property taxes is recognized in the fiscal year for which the taxes are levied. 37