Item 3C: Resolution on FY11 CAFR

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The business-type activities of the City include the following: Ambulance transport Municipal airport Parking services Stormwater utility Wastewater utility The government-wide financial statements include not only the City itself (known as the primary government), but also a legally separate Urban Renewal Agency (URA) for which the City is financially accountable. Although legally separate, the URA’s governing body is identical to the City’s, and because the services of the URA are exclusively for the benefit of the City, it is included as an integral part of the primary government. The government-wide financial statements can be found at Exhibits 1 and 2 in the basic financial statements. Fund financial statements. A fund is a grouping of related accounts that is used to maintain control over resources that have been segregated for specific activities or objectives. The City uses fund accounting to ensure and demonstrate compliance with finance-related legal requirements. All of the funds of the City can be divided into two categories: governmental funds and proprietary funds. Governmental funds. Governmental funds are used to account for activities where the emphasis is placed on available financial resources, rather than upon net income determination. Therefore, unlike the government-wide financial statements, governmental fund financial statements focus on the acquisition and use of current spendable resources, as well as on balances of spendable resources available at the end of the fiscal year. Such information may be useful in evaluating a government’s near-term requirements. Because the focus of governmental funds is narrower than that of the government-wide financial statements, it is useful to compare the information presented for governmental funds with similar information presented for governmental activities in the government-wide financial statements. By doing so, readers may better understand the long-term impact of the government’s near-term financial decisions. Both the governmental fund Balance Sheet and the governmental fund Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balances provide a reconciliation to facilitate this comparison between governmental funds and governmental activities. These reconciliations can be found at Exhibits 3 and 5 in the basic financial statements. The City maintains 22 individual governmental funds. Information is presented separately in the governmental fund Balance Sheet and in the governmental fund Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balances for those funds that are considered significant (major) to the City taken as a whole. These financial statements report four major funds: General Fund, Community Development Special Revenue Fund, General Capital Projects Fund, and the Systems Development Capital Projects Fund. Data from the other 21 governmental funds are combined into a single, aggregated presentation. Summary fund data by fund-type for these nonmajor governmental funds is provided as other supplementary information in the form of combining statements at B-1 and B-2 of this report. Individual fund data for each of these nonmajor governmental funds is provided in the form of combining statements at C-1, C-2, D-1, D-2, E-1, and E-2. The City adopts an annual appropriated budget for all governmental funds. To demonstrate compliance with the budget, budgetary comparison statements have been provided for the General Fund and the Community Development Fund as required supplementary information at A-1 and A-2. Budgetary comparisons for all other governmental funds have been provided as other supplementary information at C-3 through C-12, D-3 through D-6, and E-3 through E-8. The governmental fund financial statements can be found at Exhibits 3 and 4 in the basic financial statements. Proprietary funds. Proprietary funds are used to account for activities where the emphasis is placed on net income determination. The City maintains two different types of proprietary funds – enterprise funds and internal service funds. Enterprise funds are used to report the same functions presented as business-type activities in the governmental-wide financial statements. The City uses enterprise funds to account for its ambulance transport, municipal airport, parking services, stormwater utility, and wastewater utility operations. Internal service funds are an accounting device used to accumulate and allocate costs internally among the City’s various functions. The City uses internal service funds to account for engineering services, facilities services, fleet services, information systems and services, and risk and benefits management activities. Because internal service funds predominantly benefit governmental rather than business-type functions, their assets and liabilities have been included with the governmental activities in the government-wide financial statements. 14