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7 • FINANCEHarris County Water Control and Improvement District-Fondren Road (Harris County)

Fund Balance Flow Assumptions Sometimes the District will fund outlays for a particular purpose from both restricted and unrestricted resources (the total of committed, assigned, and unassigned fund balance). In order to calculate the amounts to report as

Presented in: Harris County WCID Fondren Road Board Meeting - 2021-01-12 on 2021-01-12
Meeting Agenda PDF

Official Roll-Call Vote

Restrains Gov't • 4.3/10 Impact Weight
PASSED (5 - 0)
“Motion to approve Fund Balance Flow Assumptions Sometimes the District will fund outlays for a particular purpose from both restricted and unrestricted resources (the total of committed, assigned, and unassigned fund balance). In order to calculate the amounts to report as”
PP
Peggy Porter
Director, Place 1 (Place 1)
YES
DG
Dennis Giuffre
Director, Place 2 (Place 2)
YES
JC
Jan Carlos Galo
Director, Place 3 (Place 3)
YES
JG
Jerry Garrett
Director, Place 4 (Place 4)
YES
CT
Chrystal Tyler
Director, Place 5 (Place 5)
YES

Staff Report & Agenda Item Details

Fund Balance Flow Assumptions Sometimes the District will fund outlays for a particular purpose from both restricted and unrestricted resources (the total of committed, assigned, and unassigned fund balance). In order to calculate the amounts to report as restricted, committed, assigned, and unassigned fund balance in the governmental fund financial statements, a flow assumption must be made about the order in which the resources are considered to be applied. It is the District’s policy to consider restricted fund balance to have been depleted before using any of the components of unrestricted fund balance. Further, when the components of unrestricted fund balance can be used for the same purpose, committed fund balance is depleted first, followed by assigned fund balance. Unassigned fund balance is applied last.

Bastiat Liberty & Property Rights Analysis

This motion is scored as RESTRAINS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 4.3/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, voting YES on measures that cap or reduce ad valorem tax burdens, expand taxpayer exemptions, retire debt early, enforce competitive bidding caps, or remove regulatory/zoning barriers to private property rights earns a positive Pro-Liberty score.