Southtowns Record

3/10/26 Board Packet ​

Government
Village of Gowanda
Board
Village Board
Meeting
Mar 10, 2026
Kind
Agenda packet
Topics
Budget and taxes, Audits and oversight, Water, sewer and drainage, Public safety, Parks and recreation, Zoning and land use, Roads and traffic, Housing

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¢  Equipment purchases — Represents  available fund balance to be used to fund future
  equipment purchases.

  ©  Capital improvements — Represents available fund balance to be used for future capital
  expenditures.  ,
  ©  Restricted for  repairs  — Represents  available  fund  balance  for future  potential  repair
  expenditures.  -

  ¢  Restricted for Maintenance~ Represents available fund balance to fund certain future ongoing
  maintenance costs.

Tn the fund financial statements, commitments are amounts that are subject to a purpose constraint
imposed by a formal action of the Villages highest level of decision-making authority. As of May
31, 2025, the Village has no committed fund balance.  :
In the fund financial statements, assignments are not legally required segregations, but are
segregated for a specific purpose by the Village. At May 31. 2025, the following balances were
considered to be assigned:

  Community
  General  Development  Water  Sewer
  Fund  Fund  Fund  Fund  Total
  Appropriated  $ 350,000  -  ~  -  350,000
  Specific Use  =  397,985  514,389  763,610  1,675,984
  $ 350,000  $  397,985  514,389  763,610  2,025,984

  *  Assigned to specific use — Represents fund balance within the special revenue funds that
  is assigned for a specific purpose. The assignments’ purpose relates to each fund's operations
  and represent the remaining amounts within funds that are not restricted or committed,

Unassigned fund balance represents the residual classification of the Village’s General Fund and
Capital Projects Fund.  :

Ifthe Village must use funds for emergency expenditures, the Village Board shall authorize the
Mayor to expend funds first from funds classified under GASB 54as nonspendable (if funds become
available) then restricted funds. The use of committed and assigned funds as classified by GASB 54
will occur after the exhaustion of available restricted funds. Finally, if no other fund balances are
available the Village will use unassigned fund balance.

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