Re: New Demand Warrant Form

From: DONE / LA City

To: Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council

6/28/2007

Dear Treasurers,

Attached you will find the new Demand Warrant (DW) form to be used for all Paper Check Requests for the new fiscal year. Please remember that Demand Warrants should only be used for expenditures over $1,000 or when your US Bank card and petty cash cannot be used to cover an invoice:

Starting next week, the new DW form will also be available on our website at lacityneighborhoods .com in the funding section under forms. The document will be available both as a pdf and word document for data entry.

Please remember that if an expenditure/ project are not itemized in your budget, board approval will be needed to process the DW.  General budget categories such as outreach, advertisement, operation expenses, equipment and community beautification project are too general to function as an official expenditure approval. Itemized budget categories such as election, board meeting advertisement in local papers, office desktop and mural restoration project are more acceptable for an approval. The purpose for this is to ensure that all expenditures are voted on and approved in public and to allow board members and stakeholders to comment on significant expenditures and projects.

Thanks for all you efforts in the past fiscal year and for all your suggestions on this new DW form.

We look forward to working with you in the next fiscal year.

Sincerely,

The Funding Program

Department of Neighborhood Empowerment
334-B E. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Office: (213) 485-1360
Fax: (213) 485-4608
Toll Free: Dial 311

Email: done.funding@lacity.org
Website: www.lacityneighborhoods.com