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(c) Negotiate loans and the issuance and sale of bonds and notes when authorized by <br />the council; maintain records of county indebtedness and have charge of the <br />payment of interest and principal thereon. <br />(d) Have custody of all public funds belonging to or under the control of the county, <br />county agency or executive agency, and deposit all such funds in banks or trust <br />companies designated as depositories by resolution of the council, subject to the <br />requirements imposed by law as to surety and payment of interest, which interest <br />shall accrue to the benefit of the public and shall be credited to the proper fund <br />and account. <br />(e) Examine all contracts, orders and other documents by which financial obligations <br />are incurred, and every such document shall be subject to approval by the director <br />of finance but the director of finance shall not approve unless the director of <br />finance first verifies the appropriation, allotment and availability of funds to meet <br />the obligation concerned and verifies thereto as provided in Section 10 -11. <br />(f) Prepare and issue warrants, prepare payrolls and pension rolls and disburse all <br />funds in the county treasury. No money shall be paid out of the treasury unless <br />the finance director first verifies the appropriation, allotment and availability of <br />funds to cover the claim concerned and certifies thereto as provided in Section <br />10 -11 and then determines that such claim is regular in form, correctly computed <br />and constitutes a legal obligation. <br />(g) Maintain a general accounting system for the county and require all county <br />agencies and executive agencies to report and remit all receipts to the finance <br />director as often as the finance director deems desirable. <br />(h) Each month submit to the mayor and to the council through the mayor a statement <br />of the revenues and expenditures for the preceding month and for the fiscal year <br />up to and including the preceding month. Such statement shall be sufficiently <br />detailed as to appropriations, allotments and funds to show the exact financial <br />condition of the county and of each of its agencies and executive agencies. <br />(1) Submit to the council through the mayor at the end of each fiscal year a report of <br />the financial transactions of that year and a complete statement of the financial <br />condition of the county at the end of the year, within ninety days after the end of <br />the year. <br />0) Prepare and maintain a perpetual inventory of all lands, roadways, streets, <br />easements and other land interests owned, leased, rented or controlled by the <br />county. <br />(k) Prepare and maintain a perpetual inventory of equipment owned or controlled by <br />the county and materials and supplies in county storerooms, and dispose of <br />property not needed by any agency or executive agency of the county pursuant to <br />policies established by ordinance. <br />(1) Where not in conflict with this charter, assume and perform all the duties and <br />functions of the purchasing agent, the treasurer and the auditor of the county as <br />provided by law, and for this purpose the director of finance shall be authorized to <br />appoint a deputy, to assign and reassign such duties to any employee as the <br />director of finance sees fit and to make internal administrative and organizational <br />changes as the finance director sees fit subject to the approval of the mayor. <br />17 <br />