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12. Sewer revenue is down slightly (3.1%) compared to last October due in part to reduced flow and <br />load from Sara Lee. Water revenue is up 15.30% for the month as the City was still benefiting <br />from a dryer summer. October billings are based on September consumption. Total Water & <br />Sewer revenues are 8.39% above last year and equal 9.00% of budget just above the 8.33% <br />budget to date percentage. <br />Departmental Expenditure Summary: <br />At this point the City is one month or 8.33% through the budget year. It is important to remember that <br />expenditures do not occur equally throughout the year. For example, capital expenditures and <br />association memberships are one time expenditures that if made early in the fiscal year can produce a <br />distorted expenditure percentage. Within the General and Water & Sewer Funds there are three <br />departments whose expenditures are over 8.33% at this time. <br />1. City Council-10.57%. The overage amounts to $2,496 and consists mainly of association <br />memberships, general liability insurance (paid quarterly), and expenditures related to codifying <br />City ordinances. <br />2. City Clerk-9.02%. The overage amounts to $1,100 and consists mainly of personnel costs <br />charged to that department that should have been charged to Community Development. This <br />was corrected in November. <br />3. Library-9.02%. The overage amounts to $4,350 and consists mainly of liability insurance (paid <br />quarterly) and equipment maintenance agreements. <br />General comments to the City Council: <br />1. Over 99% of all of the City operational activity takes place in the General Fund or the Water and <br />Sewer Fund. The other funds are special purpose funds with limited activity and usually with <br />legal restrictions on what their money can be spent on. For that reason, I normally only <br />comment on the activity of the General Fund and Water & Sewer Fund. However, if it were <br />needed, I would make comment on activity in one of the other funds. <br />2. I try to anticipate questions you might have about the report and comment on those points. <br />After you receive your packet and review the monthly report, if you have questions about the <br />report, please let the Manager know (or me if you can't reach the Manager) before the Council <br />meeting if possible in case I have to research the answer to your question. That does not <br />prevent you from asking the question at the meeting if you wish to make a point, but it does <br />help prevent questions coming up that I can't answer on the spot and possibly delaying the <br />Council in making a decision. <br />3. The activity of the Health Department and Paris Economic Development Corporation is reflected <br />in the monthly report. This is a result of the City performing the bookkeeping functions for both <br />of these groups. Both groups have their own managing board. <br />. 1.7 <br />