Wednesday, April 22, 2015

City Council Work Session14-Mar-2015: Budget

On April 14 we held a budget work session. One resident attended, Tim Heyrend (a member of the planning commission), and was able to add value during the meeting. We asked for his viewpoint on several occasions.

The finance director walked through the budget using power point slides he had prepared.

As we reviewed the budget we identified areas of concern (e.g. revenue projection lower than we thought or could this item be reduced). All in all I believe we came up with the about 50K in revenue and a similar amount in cost reductions.

The budget will continue to be refined over the next couple of months. Please feel free to look at the online version of the draft budget. This is a Google spreadsheet and I’ve included a sheet for the Police and Fire Budgets which were recently approved as well as a number of charts and graphs and summary data.

I’ve included a couple of the more interesting charts below and a summary table. You might also find it interesting that the employee wages and benefits paid for out of the general fund declined slightly. I think this is because staff made an effort to more accurately allocate city employee costs to the sewer, water … funds.

2015-04-14 GF Rev Pie

2015-04-14 GF Tax Rev Pie

2015-04-14 GF Expenses Pie

2015-04-14 Wage v Other Pie

14 April 2015 Draft Budget Summary

Category
2014-15 Budget
2015-2016 Budget
$ Change
% Change
% of 15-16 Total
General Fund Rev
         
Transfers
$57,100
$57,100
$0
0.00%
0.74%
Taxes
$4,791,259
$4,780,462
($10,797)
-0.23%
61.90%
Licenses &Permits
$487,100
$470,500
($16,600)
-3.53%
6.09%
Intergovernmental
$1,002,327
$701,231
($301,096)
-42.94%
9.08%
Fees And Services
$40,800
$34,250
($6,550)
-19.12%
0.44%
Court Fines
$242,800
$223,800
($19,000)
-8.49%
2.90%
Other
$28,200
$28,200
$0
0.00%
0.37%
Cemetery
$75,000
$75,000
$0
0.00%
0.97%
Miscellaneous
$420,400
$433,500
$13,100
3.02%
5.61%
Garbage & Other
$787,932
$918,987
$131,055
14.26%
11.90%
Total Gen Fund Rev
$7,932,918
$7,723,030
($209,888)
-2.72%
100.00%
 
 
 
 
 
 
General Fund Exp.
 
 
 
 
 
Council
$68,226
$59,244
($8,982)
-15.16%
0.77%
Court
$298,648
$230,976
($67,672)
-29.30%
2.99%
Administrative
$360,794
$393,655
$32,861
8.35%
5.10%
Auditor
$9,500
$10,000
$500
5.00%
0.13%
Finance Dept..
$146,368
$148,924
$2,556
1.72%
1.93%
Recorder
$141,105
$127,711
($13,394)
-10.49%
1.65%
Treasurer
$44,953
$46,045
$1,092
2.37%
0.60%
Attorney
$34,250
$40,000
$5,750
14.38%
0.52%
Library
$246,148
$262,942
$16,794
6.39%
3.40%
Appeal Authority
$4,000
$4,000
$0
0.00%
0.05%
Planning & Zoning
$184,295
$142,923
($41,372)
-28.95%
1.85%
Police Department
$1,778,687
$1,860,812
$82,125
4.41%
24.10%
Emergency Services
$1,265,188
$1,298,201
$33,013
2.54%
16.81%
Building Inspection
$184,661
$206,048
$21,387
10.38%
2.67%
Streets And Roads
$730,384
$743,101
$12,717
1.71%
9.62%
Engineer
$217,591
$218,500
$909
0.42%
2.83%
Parks & Recreation
$427,228
$427,014
($214)
-0.05%
5.53%
Cemetery
$85,916
$83,807
($2,109)
-2.52%
1.09%
Community Events
$121,967
$84,374
($37,593)
-44.56%
1.09%
Garbage
$614,493
$656,251
$41,758
6.36%
8.50%
Transfers
$968,516
$678,283
($290,233)
-42.79%
8.78%
Total Gen Fund Exp.
$7,932,918
$7,722,811
($210,107)
-2.72%
100.00%
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net General Fund
$0
$219
$219
0.00%
 

The council, as always, welcomes any feedback.

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1 comment:

  1. Thanks for sharing, Rod. It's always good to see a government budget go down . . .

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