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Section GMG.02.03 — Use Of Net Gaming Revenues: Tribal Government Operations And Programs

(a) The Tribal Council hereby allocates THIRTY-FIVE (35%) of net gaming revenues in order to provide supplemental funding for tribal governmental operations and programs.

(1) If it deems it necessary, the Tribal Council shall have the authority to revise and increase the percentage of net gaming revenues allocated to funding the tribal government operations and programs. The percentage increase shall be drawn from the percentage set by Section GMG.02.04. The Tribal Council shall not decrease the allocated percentage set by this Section to provide for per capita payments authorized under Section GMG.02.07. Any revision of the allocated percentage herein shall be documented by a Tribal Council resolution, a copy of which shall be provided to the Secretary of the Interior.

(2) Any net gaming revenues allocated to funding for tribal governmental operations and programs that have not been expended as of the last date of this fiscal year may, at the Tribal Council's discretion after review of allocation performance, be allocated to the purposes set forth in either Section GMG.02.04 - Section GMG.02.07 or be allocated to funding for tribal governmental operations and programs for the subsequent fiscal year, or be allocated into 50% long-term investment and 50% into tribal government operations for the subsequent fiscal year.

(b) Tribal governmental operations and programs to be supplementarily funded by net gaming revenues under this Section shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following: Tribal Council, tribal administration, capital expenditures including capital improvements to tribal government buildings, tribal public works program, tribal utilities and roads, tribal planning program, tribal enrollment program, tribal housing , tribal social services program, tribal community health representative, tribal health services and Health and Wellness Center, tribal government legal and financial services, Tribal Court, tribal law enforcement services , Indian Child Welfare Act tribal program, tribal clean-up program, tribal education program, tribal parenting program, summer youth workers' program, school food service program, Tribal Museum and Library, tribal recreation program, tribal elderly program and tribal cultural programs. Additionally, supplemental funding for future tribal government operations and programs being developed and hereafter developed and added to this provision by amendment.

(c) At least one hundred and twenty days prior to the commencement of each new fiscal year, the Tribe's Finance Department shall receive budget reports and requests from each tribal governmental operation and program. The budget reports shall detail at a minimum: past fiscal year revenues, projected revenues, revenue sources, including the amount of net revenues derived from gaming enterprises, past fiscal year expenditures and projected expenditures, together with a detailed accounting for expenditures. The budget reports shall also include budget requests including requests for supplemental funding from net gaming revenues allocated to funding for tribal governmental operations and programs.

(d) At least sixty days prior to the commencement of each new fiscal year, the Tribal Council shall, after receiving all budget reports and requests under this Section, allocate those funds designated for tribal governmental operations and programs. The Tribal Council shall be the sole decision-making body as to any actions taken upon budget reports and requests and as to the allocation of funds designated for tribal government operations and programs.

(e) The Tribal Council, through the Tribe's Finance Department shall disburse those monies allocated to tribal governmental operations and programs in accordance with the fiscal year budget referenced in subsection (d) above. Any disbursements made hereunder shall be received by the receiving tribal governmental operation or program and handled in a manner consistent with the Tribe's policies and procedures and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

(f) Prior to the adoption of the new fiscal year budget, the Tribal Council shall review the budget reports and requests required in subsection (c) above for the prior fiscal year, and any other reports prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting methods, to determine the actual amount of monies expended on tribal governmental operations and programs in the prior fiscal year together with the percentage of total net gaming revenues allocated to tribal governmental operations and programs in the prior fiscal year.