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<br />Financial Analysis of the City’s Funds
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<br />As noted earlier, the City uses fund accounting to ensure and demonstrate compliance with finance -related legal
<br />requirements.
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<br />Governmental Funds. The focus of the City’s governmental funds is to provide information on near-term inflows, outflows
<br />and balances of spendable resources. Such information is useful in assessing the City’s financing requirements. In
<br />particular, unassigned fund balance may serve as a useful measure of a government’s net resources available for
<br />spending at the end of the fiscal year. The table below outlines the governmental fund balances for the year ending
<br />December 31, 2022:
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<br />Municipal Internal Other
<br />General State Aid Service Governmental Prior Year Increase/
<br />Fund Street Funds Funds Total Total (Decrease)
<br />Fund Balances
<br />Nonspendable 33,771$ -$ -$ -$ -$ -$ 33,771$ 40,670$ (6,899)$
<br />Restricted - - - 15,151,607 - 2,894,409 18,046,016 18,561,508 (515,492)
<br />Committed - - - - - 64,885 64,885 38,712 26,173
<br />Assigned - - - 700,600 - 2,516,883 3,217,483 3,245,236 (27,753)
<br />Unassigned 5,219,544 (1,507,050) (1,117,246) - 495,413 (1,464,359) 1,626,302 994,985 631,317
<br />5,253,315$ (1,507,050)$ (1,117,246)$ 15,852,207$ 495,413$ 4,011,818$ 22,988,457$ 22,881,111$ 107,346$
<br />Pavement
<br />Management
<br />Plan
<br />Project
<br />Construction
<br />Fund
<br /> As of the close of the current fiscal year, the City’s governmental funds reported combined ending fund balances shown
<br />above. Additional information on the City’s fund balances can be found in Note 1 starting on page 63 of this report.
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<br />The General fund is the chief operating fund of the City. At the end of the current year, the fund balance of the General
<br />fund is shown in the table above. As a measure of the General fund’s liquidity, it may be useful to compare unassigned
<br />fund balance to total fund expenditures. The total unassigned fund balance as a percent of total fund expenditures is
<br />shown in the chart below along with total fund balance as a percent of total expenditures.
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<br />Current Year Prior Year Increase/
<br />Ending Balance Ending Balance (Decrease)
<br />General Fund Fund Balances
<br />Nonspendable 33,771$ 40,670$ (6,899)$
<br />Unassigned 5,219,544 4,617,503 602,041
<br />5,253,315$ 4,658,173$ 595,142$
<br />General Fund expenditures 9,278,482$ 8,905,599$
<br />Unassigned as a percent of expenditures 56.3%51.8%
<br />Total Fund Balance as a percent of expenditures 56.6%52.3%
<br /> The fund balance of the City’s General fund increased during the current fiscal year as shown in the table above. The
<br />increase in fund balance was due to an increase in charges for services.
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