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2000 Budget <br />August 1, 2000 <br />Page 8 <br /> <br />assistance, etc.), and expanded capital outlay needs, it is not hard to see why <br />a 12 percent increase in expenditures is being requested. <br /> <br />SPECIAL LEVY AND REVENUE FUND <br /> <br />Outside the General Fund the city has a number of budgets that are <br />classified as special levy or special revenue budgets. These budgets are as <br />follows: <br /> <br /> Library <br />· Surface Water Management (SWM) <br />· Special Assessments <br />· Ice Arena <br />· Equipment Certificates <br />· Equipment Reserves <br />· HRA <br />· EDA <br />· Landfill <br /> <br />Most of these budgets are straightforward and will be discussed at the 8/7/00 <br />worksession. The library budget is attached and shows very little change <br />from the 2000 budget. The SWM and special assessments tax revenues are <br />identified in the tax levy resolution. The HRA and EDA budgets are <br />recommended to the council by these organizations and they have their own <br />levy for their activities. The landfill budget is financed with landfill <br />surcharge funds dedicated for waste abatement purposes and activities relate <br />to enforcement of the landfill license and CUP. Three budgets that need a <br />little more discussion are the equipment certificates and equipment reserve <br />budgets and the ice arena budget. <br /> <br />Equipment...Attached is the proposed 2001 capital outlay page that shows <br />the requested items by department and by funding category. Also attached is <br />the 2000 capital outlay final page so that you can see a comparison of the <br />totals and how the amounts have shifted. Missing from the 2000 list is the <br />$72,900 tax levy amount for the last bond payment on the 1989 aerial <br />platform ladder truck. In a sense, this fire truck bond amount has changed to <br />$75,000 and moved to equipment certificates to fund the new fire truck <br />pumper and the roadside mower. (Another way to look at the same situation <br />is that equipment certificates are increasing from $57,200 in 2000 to $75,000 <br />in 2001, but the fire aerial truck bond tax levy payment of $72,891 is ending <br />and so the net balance of $55,091 is available for General Fund use.) <br /> <br />As the council knows, revenues in the equipment reserve fund are limited <br />and for the past two years expenditures have exceeded revenues so the fund <br />balance has gone down. For the next few years we would like to reverse this <br />trend and have revenues exceed expenditures. The undesignated cash <br /> <br /> <br />