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Departmental Expenditure Summary: At this point the City is eleven months or 91.66% 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 seven departments whose expenditures were over 91.66%. 1. City Council -129.52%. The overage amounts to $72,126 and was due to consultant costs and the housing assessment study. The City will receive reimbursement on 2/3 of the study. 2. City Manager -95.68%. The overage amounts to $30,654 and was due to salary & benefits, furniture, insurance, and minor apparatus. 3. Parks -92.55%. The overage amounts to $12,561 and was due to utilities, temp workers, and buildings/grounds maintenance. 4. Paris Band -102.78%. The overage amounts to $2,564 and was due to payments to band members. 5. Library -92.41%. The overage amounts to $6,347 and was caused by supplies, technical processing, annual insurance payment, travel, furniture, and maintenance agreement. 6. Water Treatment Plant -94.32%. The overage amounts to $96,367 and was caused by lab chemicals and filtration plant costs. 7. Sanitation -96.89%. The overage amounts to $72,211 and was due to CARDS payments. General comments to the City Council: Over 99% of all 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 must 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 delay the Council in making a decision.