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Show 116 INTERSTATE COMPACTS mated expenses for administration, operation, maintenance and re- pairs, including a separate statement thereof for each project, together with its cost allocation. The total of such expenses shall be balanced by the commission's estimated revenues from all sources, including the cost allocations undertaken by any of the signatory parties in connection with any project. Following the adoption of the annual current expense budget by the commission, the executive director of the commission shall: 1) certify to the respective signatory parties the amounts due in accordance with existing cost sharing established for each project; and 2) transmit certified copies of such budget to the principal budget officer of the respective signatory parties at such time and in such manner as may be required under their respective budg- etary procedures. The amount required to balance the current expense budget in addition to the aggregate amount of item (1) above and all other revenues available to the commission shall be apportioned equitably among the signatory parties by unanimous vote of the commission, and the amount of such apportionment to each signatory party shall be certified together with the budget. (c) The respective signatory parties covenant and agree to include the amounts so apportioned for the support of the current expense budget in their respective budgets next to be adopted, subject to such review and approval as may be required by their respective budgetary processes. Such amounts shall be due and payable to the commission in quarterly installments during its fiscal year, provided that the commission may draw upon its working capital to finance its current expense budget pending remittances by the signatory parties. ARTICLE 14 GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 14.1 Auxiliary Powers of Commission; Functions of Com- missioners. (a) The commission, for the purposes of this compact, may: 1) Adopt and use a corporate seal, enter into contracts, sue and be sued in all courts of competent jurisdiction; 2) Receive and accept such payments, appropriations, grants, gifts, loans, advances and other funds, properties and services as may be transferred or made available to it by any signatory party or by any other public or private corporation or individual, and enter into agreements to make reimbursement for all or part thereof ; 3) Provide for, acquire and adopt detailed engineering, admin- istrative, financial and operating plans and specifications to effec- tuate, maintain or develop any facility or project; 4) Control and regulate the use of facilities owned or operated by the commission; 5) Acquire, own, operate, maintain, control, sell and convey real and personal property and any interest therein by contract, purchase, ]ease, license, mortgage or otherwise as it may deem necessary for any project or facility, including any and all appur- |