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File #: RFD 16-001    Version: 1 Name: 2015 Draft Year End Financial Report and Final Restricted Surplus and Allowance Transfers
Type: Request For Decision Status: Carried
File created: 12/15/2015 In control: Corporate Services Division
On agenda: 3/8/2016 Final action: 3/8/2016
Title: 2015 Draft Year End Financial Report, Final Restricted Surplus and Allowance Transfers, and Restricted Surplus Authorization Form Changes Proposed Motions 1. That Council accept the Draft 2015 Year End Financial Reports as information. 2. That Council rescind the Early Retirement Incentive Restricted Surplus with the balance of the reserve ($235,886) transferred to Contingency Restricted Surplus. 3. That Council approve the creation of the Hamlet Sustainability Restricted Surplus. 4. That Council approve the transfer of $3,480,903 to Restricted Surplus and the decrease to the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts in the amount of $9,700 as per Attachment 1.
Attachments: 1. 1. Restricted Surplus Transfers Year End, 2. 2. Tax Carryforward Requirements, 3. 3. Budget Summary Draft, 4. 4. Water & Waste Water Graphs, 5. 5. Smart Parkland Tower Analysis, 6. 6. Early Retirement Incentive Restricted Surplus Authorization Form, 7. 7. Statement of Restricted Surplus, 8. 8. Hamlet Sustainability Restricted Surplus Authorization Form
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2015 Draft Year End Financial Report, Final Restricted Surplus and Allowance Transfers, and Restricted Surplus Authorization Form Changes

Proposed Motions
1. That Council accept the Draft 2015 Year End Financial Reports as information.
2. That Council rescind the Early Retirement Incentive Restricted Surplus with the balance of the reserve ($235,886) transferred to Contingency Restricted Surplus.
3. That Council approve the creation of the Hamlet Sustainability Restricted Surplus.
4. That Council approve the transfer of $3,480,903 to Restricted Surplus and the decrease to the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts in the amount of $9,700 as per Attachment 1.

Body
Administrative Recommendations
Administration supports the proposed motions.

Purpose
To update Council on the financial status of Parkland County as of December 31, 2015. As part of the 2015 year end process and financial statement preparation, accounts are reviewed to determine: any 2015 projects that were not completed, if additional funding is available or required, and if the balance in the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts is sufficient to provide for accounts deemed uncollectible.

Summary
The following amounts are proposed to be transferred:
Transfer to Restricted Surplus - incomplete projects and programs $979,150 (Attachment 1, Note 1).
Transfer to Restricted Surplus - future projects and programs $2,174,198 (Attachment 1, Note 2).
Transfer to Restricted Surplus - other transfers $327,555 (Attachment 1, Note 3).
Transfer from Early Retirement Restricted Surplus to Contingency Restricted Surplus - $235,886 (Attachment 1, Note 4)
Decrease to the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts - $9,700 (Attachment 1, Note 5).

Early Retirement Administrative Directives A-HR18 and A-HR19 expired December 31, 2015 which results in the County no longer requiring the Early Retirement Incentive Restricted Surplus (Attachment 6). A Hamlet Sustainability Restricted Surplus authorization form ha...

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