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<br />Policy 12: Encourage public/private partnerships for community benefit. <br /> <br />Program 12.1: Explore options for the provision of community goods and services by <br />the business sector consistent with the City's competitive bidding process. <br /> <br />~lld~in~hlp. rity F;n::m~p.~ <br /> <br />Goal 6: To guarantee a balanced annual City budget and ensure that the City exists within its means <br />and maintains adequate reserves in anticipation of known and unknown future <br />obligations and insulates the budget as much as possible from the diversion ofrevenues <br />away from Pleasanton to other levels of government. <br /> <br />Policy 13: Maintain a balanced budget. <br /> <br />Program 13.1: Adopt an operating budget that funds current year expenditures with <br />current year revenues. Surplus fund balances (those in excess of minimum reserves <br />established in the City's formal reserve policies) may be used to increase reserves, fund <br />Capital Improvement Projects, or be carried forward to fund future years' Operating <br />Budgets when necessary to stabilize services and fund capital outlay. <br /> <br />Program 13.2: Discourage the use oflong-term debt for current operations. <br /> <br />Program 13.3: Discourage the use of short-term borrowing to support routine <br />operations, provided however, that it may be used to meet temporary cash flow needs. <br /> <br />Program 13.4: Continue to deliver services in the most cost effective manner. <br /> <br />Program 13.5: Utilize the services of volunteers in areas where it is economically <br />viable. <br /> <br />Program 13.6: Include budget objectives for each operating department in the budget <br />which identify the service and resources being provided to accomplish the specified <br />objectives. <br /> <br />Program 13.7: Fully account for and apportion all costs, fees, and General Fund <br />transfers associated with Enterprise Funds. <br /> <br />Program 13.8: Prepare periodic financial reports of actual revenue received, for <br />review by the City Council, to provide information on the status of the City's financial <br />condition. <br /> <br />Program 13.9: Require large housing and mixed-use projects located in Specific Plan <br />areas or in large Planned Unit Developments to prepare a fiscal analysis which <br /> <br />XI-15 <br />