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Indian River County, Florida Board of County Commissioners Notes To Financial Statements Year Ended September 30, 2011 NOTE 1 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES — Continued R. Budgets and Budgetary Accounting - Continued 4. On or before July 15 of each year, the County Administrator and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, as the Board's designated budget officer, submit to the Board a tentative budget for the ensuing fiscal year. The tentative budget includes proposed expenditures and the means of financing them. The Board then holds workshops to review the tentative budget by fund on a departmental level. 5. During September, public hearings are held pursuant to Section 200.065 of the Florida Statutes in order for the Board to receive public input on the tentative budget. At the end of the last public hearing, the Board enacts resolutions to legally adopt the budgets at the fund level for all governmental and proprietary fund types. The budgets legally adopted by the Board set forth the anticipated revenues by source and the appropriations by function. 6. Formal budgetary integration on an object level is used as a management control device for the governmental and proprietary funds of the Board. Management is authorized to transfer budgeted amounts between objects and departments in any fund as long as management does not exceed the total appropriations of a fund. Board approval to amend the budget is only required when unanticipated revenues are received that management wishes to have appropriated, thereby increasing the total appropriations of a fund. 7. Budgets for the governmental and proprietary fund types are adopted on a basis consistent with generally accepted accounting principles. 8. Appropriations for the Board lapse at the close of the fiscal year. NOTE 2 - CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS The Board maintains a cash and investment pool that is available for use by all funds except those whose cash and investments must be segregated due to bond covenants or other legal restrictions. A. Deposits At September 30, 2011, the carrying value of the Board's deposits with banks was $11,381,758 and the bank balance was $13,082,244. All the deposits were covered by the FDIC or collateralized in accordance with Chapter 280, Florida Statutes, also known as the "Florida Security for Public Deposits Act". B. Accrued Interest Interest earnings on U.S. Treasury Notes and government agency bonds are recorded in the cash and investment pools and then allocated to each fund based on each fund's average monthly balance. As of September 30, 2011, accrued interest for the Board's portfolio totaled $181,454 and was allocated to the funds based on their average monthly balance for September. 253