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Departmental Expenditure Summary: At this point the City is seven months or 58.33% through the budget year. It is important to remember that expenditures do not occur equally throughout the year. For example, capital expenditures and association memberships are one-time expenditures that if made early in the fiscal year can produce a distorted expenditure percentage. Within the General, Water & Sewer, Airport, and Sanitation Funds there were nine departments whose expenditures were over 58.33%. 1. City Council -70.14%. The overage amounts to $22,507 and was due to insurance and consultant costs. 2. City Manager -58.50%. The overage amounts to $1,321 and was due to furniture for a conference room. 3. City Clerk -59.33%. The overage amounts to $2200 and was due to office chair, associations, and utilities. 4. Fire Department -60.82%. The overage amounts to $141,249 and was mainly due to building maintenance and the lease/purchase payment on a fire truck. 5. Library -67.72%. The overage amounts to $79,217 and was caused by supplies, technical processing, annual insurance payment, travel, furniture, and maintenance agreement. 6. General Expenses -59.56%. The overage amounts to $25,263 and was caused by phone costs and TIRZ costs. 7. Warehouse -60.57%. The overage amounts to $2,774 and was primarily caused by vehicle maintenance. 8. Water Treatment Plant -64.62%x. The overage amounts to $227,713 and was caused by lab chemicals and filtration plant costs. 9. Cox Field Airport -60.02%. The overage amounts to $17,592 and was due to the additional contribution required on the Runway Project. General comments to the City Council: 1. Over 99% of all of the City operational activity takes place in the General Fund, the Water & Sewer Fund, Airport Fund, or the Sanitation Fund. The other funds are special purpose funds with limited activity and usually with legal restrictions on what their money can be spent on. For that reason, I normally only comment on the activity of the General Fund, Water & Sewer Fund, Airport Fund, and the Sanitation Fund. However, if circumstances merited it, I would make comment on activity in one of the other funds. I try to anticipate questions you might have about the report and comment on those points. After you receive your packet and review the monthly report, if you have questions about the report, please let the Manager know (or me if you can't reach the Manager) before the Council meeting, if possible, in case I have to research the answer to your question. That does not prevent you from asking the question at the meeting if you wish to make a point, but it does help prevent questions coming up that I can't answer on the spot and possibly delaying the Council in making a decision.