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CITY OF ELK RIVER, MINNESOTA <br />MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS <br />YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020 <br />Revenues by Source - Business -Type Activities <br />Capital Grants a <br />Contributions, 5. <br />Financial Analysis of the Government's Funds <br />✓enue, <br />:harges for Services, <br />92.99% <br />Governmental Funds. The focus of the City's governmental funds is to provide information on near - <br />term inflows, outflows, and balances of spendable resources. Such information is useful in assessing <br />the City's financing requirements. In particular, unassigned fund balance may serve as a useful <br />measure of a government's net resources available for spending at the end of the fiscal year. <br />As of the end of the current fiscal year, the City's governmental funds reported combined ending fund <br />balances of $58,504,345. Approximately 9% of this total amount ($5,315,062) constitutes unassigned <br />fund balance. The remainder of fund balance ($53,189,283) is not available for new spending because <br />it is either 1) nonspendable ($282,876), 2) restricted ($26,250,482), 3) committed ($11,705,506) or <br />4) assigned ($14,950,419) for other purposes. <br />The General fund is the chief operating fund of the City of Elk River. The total fund balance of the <br />General fund increased $379,270 during the current year, resulting primarily from budgeted transfers in. <br />The Active ER Projects fund decreased $18,468,870 due to capital outlay expenditures incurred for the <br />acquisition and betterment of certain recreational facility improvements, park improvements, trail <br />improvements, and the dredging of Lake Orono, which were paid for with proceeds from the 2019 G.O. <br />Sales Tax Revenue Bonds. <br />The Pavement Management fund increased $1,458,923 due to the collection of franchise fees and <br />intergovernmental revenues exceeding expenditures in the current year. <br />(18) <br />