The draft audit notes that the city's goal had been to maintain an unrestricted fund balance (sometimes referred to as a reserve fund) of 5 percent of
its total general fund budget.
Not exact matches
Following approval of the annual
budget, no additional unassigned
General Fund fund balance shall be appropriated as revenue during the fiscal year without the affirmative vote of at least two - thirds of the total membership of the County Legislat
Fund fund balance shall be appropriated as revenue during the fiscal year without the affirmative vote of at least two - thirds of the total membership of the County Legislat
fund balance shall be appropriated as revenue during the fiscal year without the affirmative vote of at least two - thirds of the
total membership of the County Legislature.
Totaling $ 4,445,454 in appropriations, including the
General, Highway, Water and Sewer
Funds, the proposed town
budget would require an additional $ 71,296 in taxes to be raised, an increase of 2.53 percent over 2017.
«We had a $ 3.8 million deficit in the
general fund, and we're looking at a $ 2.6 [million] deficit in our federal grants, which brought our
total budget deficit to $ 6.4 million,» Albanese said.
In the report on South Huntington, which covered July 2014 through December 2015, auditors said the school board and district officials overestimated
general fund appropriations in the last three adopted
budgets, resulting in operating surpluses
totaling approximately $ 10.6 million.
While the preliminary
budget had already laid out $ 1 billion for the
General Reserve and $ 500 million for the Capital Stabilization Reserve, the mayor added another $ 250 million to the Retiree Health Benefits Trust
fund, bringing it to a
total of $ 3.7 billion.
Friedfel says the «gimmicks» include a proposal to shift the cost of paying some state workers from the
general fund to a capital
fund, worth $ 227 million, which does not count towards
total spending in the
budget.
K - 12 education is the largest line item in most state
budgets, representing 22 percent of
total state spending and more than a third of
general fund expenditures (money that comes from state taxes and is not earmarked for specific purposes).
Public education, which received more than $ 2.5 billion in state
funding this year, makes up the largest individual slice of the Mississippi
general fund budget at about 40 percent of the
total budget.
Additionally, my school's
budget was reduced by 3.26 percent (adding to a
total of almost 14 percent in the past four years),
general per - pupil
funding was cut by 6 percent, and the city decided students with special needs would receive 15 percent less per - pupil
funding than before.
Under the
budget passed by the
General Assembly this week, state
funding for postsecondary education will be cut over the next two years, with
total biennial decreases of 2.5 % for financial aid resources and for institutional
funding.
(a) if the amount of money in the contingency reserve
fund at the time of the first annual
general meeting is less than 25 % of the estimated operating expenses for the 12 month period set out in the interim
budget, the annual contribution to the contingency reserve
fund under the first annual
budget must be at least 10 % of the
total amount
budgeted for the contribution to the operating
fund for the 12 month period covered by that
budget;
(b) if the amount of money in the contingency reserve
fund at the end of any fiscal year after the first annual
general meeting is equal to or greater than 25 % of the
total amount
budgeted for the contribution to the operating
fund for the fiscal year that has just ended, additional contributions to the contingency reserve
fund may be made as part of the annual
budget approval process after consideration of the depreciation report, if any, obtained under section 94 of the Act.
The overall proposed
budget is up $ 8 million and
totals $ 332.6 million, while the proposed
general fund budget is $ 231.2 million, around $ 3.7 million more than last year's
general fund budget.
And finally, the report notes that the share of the
budget dedicated to early childhood has decreased significantly, shrinking from 2.1 % of the total State General Fund Budget in FY 2000 - 2001 to 1.3 % in FY 2012 -
budget dedicated to early childhood has decreased significantly, shrinking from 2.1 % of the
total State
General Fund Budget in FY 2000 - 2001 to 1.3 % in FY 2012 -
Budget in FY 2000 - 2001 to 1.3 % in FY 2012 - 2013.