Payment of claims and demands authorized by the Manager or his designee shall be drawn from money from the Treasury in the form of warrants, checks, electronic transfers or any other form or method of payment authorized by the Manager and City Clerk only if money is available in the appropriate fund; claims for running expenses and purchases not to exceed amount appropriated for running expenses.

No payment shall be drawn from the Treasury for running expenses, nor shall any claim for such expense be allowed, unless there shall then be money in the appropriate fund in the Treasury sufficient to pay the same. Any payment issued in violation of this section or any claim allowed contrary to its provisions, shall be invalid and unenforceable.

And no claim, on account of running expenses, which with the aggregate with all other claims theretofore allowed for such expenses during any fiscal year, which exceeds the amount appropriated for running expenses for that year, shall constitute a valid demand against the City.

And it shall be unlawful for any officer, agent, or employee of the City to purchase any materials, or supplies, or employ any labor, or service, the cost of which, with the aggregate of the cost of materials, or supplies, labor or service theretofore purchased or employed during the then current year, shall exceed the amount appropriated for running expenses for that year.

Notwithstanding any provision of this Charter to the contrary the Council shall have the power to establish a Check Purchase Order System utilizing an Imprest Checking Account for limited routine expenditures. Any Ordinance establishing such a system shall specify the circumstances under which the system may be employed, including the limitations on the type of transactions subject to the system, amounts that may be expended and the classes of employees that may be authorized to make use of the system. The City Manager shall designate and appoint in writing those individual employees authorized to use the Check Purchase Order System. The Imprest Checking Account shall be funded by warrant in an amount determined by the Council.

(Election of 11-6-1979; election of 8-25-2015, eff. 10-22-2015)