Pacifica Municipal Code Ch. 8 Payment of Demands, Salaries, and Obligations

(a) Attendance records. Department heads, as approved by the City Manager, shall certify or approve attendance records for employees in their departments. For the purpose of certifying or approving attendance records, the City Manager or his assignee shall be considered as the department head for all elective officers and may be considered as the department head for all departments.

(b) Time of payment. Salaries and/or wages of municipal employees or officers shall be paid twenty-six (26) times a year on alternate Fridays following the close of a pay period; provided, however, if such alternate Friday falls on a holiday, such salaries and/or wages shall be paid on the preceding day.

(c) Payroll checks: Signatures: Stubs. Payroll checks shall be signed by the City Manager, or shall bear his facsimile signature, and by the manual signature of the Director of Finance, or the Acting Director of Finance in the Director's absence. Payroll checks shall have a detachable stub on which shall be detailed the amount of earnings, deductions, if any, and the balance payable to the employee or officer.

(d) Payroll checks: Ratification. Payrolls or payroll checks need not be audited by the Council prior to payment. The approval of the general obligation check register shall ratify payrolls paid.

(§§ I, II, and III, Ord. 420)

(a) Checks: Signatures. The payment of demands against the City may be made by checks signed by the City Manager, or which bear his facsimile signature, and by the manual signature of the Director of Finance, or the Acting Director of Finance in the Director's absence.

(b) Checks: Auditing. Checks drawn in payment of routine and normal demands, which have been certified, audited, and approved by the Director of Finance as conforming to a budget approved by the City in conformance with the provisions of Sections 37201 through 37209 of the Government Code of the State, need not be audited by the Council prior to payment.

(c) Check register: Approval. Paid demands and demands to be paid but yet unpaid shall be presented to the Council in the form of a check register at the first regular meeting after the preparation or delivery of the checks. Such register may be presented at an adjourned meeting or special meeting if listed on the agenda thereof.

(d) Appropriation of funds. No check for any demand shall be issued or approved for payment unless funds have been lawfully appropriated and are available.

(§ IV, Ord. 420)