SUBJECT: GENERAL BUSINESS
Title
PUBLIC HEARING: An Ordinance of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Erie Appropriating Sums of Money to the Various Town Funds for the 2021 Budget Year
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DEPARTMENT: Finance
PRESENTER: Malcolm Fleming, Town Administrator
Candice Huot, Finance Manager
TIME ESTIMATE: 5 minutes
only required for non-consent items
FISCAL SUMMARY:
The budget provides funding for all Town of Erie programs, services, capital projects and initiatives in 2021. The budget reflects revenue in all funds totaling $88.7 million, and expenditures in all funds totaling $98.2 million. Expenditures exceed revenues because the Town will be completing several large capital projects for which the Town has accumulated funding rather than borrowing and incurring the cost of debt service. For the General Fund, the 2021 budget reflects a surplus (revenues exceeding expenditures) of approximately $1.3 million, compared to a 2020 projected surplus of $939,000. As a result, staff projects the General Fund will end 2021 with a "spendable fund balance" of approximately $26.3 million, compared to $25.2 million projected at the end of 2020. The 2021 "spendable fund balance" amounts to 105% of total personnel & operating expenditures (excluding capital and debt service expenditures) at the end of 2021, compared to 108% for 2020.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the Board of Trustees approve the ordinance that appropriates funds for 2021.
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SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND OF SUBJECT MATTER:
Immediately preceding this agenda item, staff anticipates the Board of Trustees will approve the 2021 budget in accordance with the Local Government Law. The approved budget includes provisions for revenue and fund balances in amounts equal to or greater than the total proposed expenditures. This ordinance is the formal action necessary to appropriate the revenues and reserves of each fund provided in the budget, to fund all Town operations.
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