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Regular City Council Meeting June 16, 2003 Page 23 reductions throughout these budgets. Some of the summaries are up and some of them are down. On page 1 of 53 is the Summary of Expenditures by Functions and Activity Classification, so, you can see over all the budgetary numbers and how they compare to the 2002-2003 budget. He said there is a small amount of capital in this budget and there will be a page that will give you a detail of what that capital expenditure is. This budget has been flat for the last three years as Mr. Anderson and Mr. Stowe alluded to, but in some cases, they are down and other cases they are up. Mayor Fendley stated that the actual expenditure twelve months ago was about $600,000.00 less than that and wanted to know how this 3.9 million is going to annualize out. Mr. Anderson said that it should annualize out pretty close to what the budget number is. He said that one of the things that makes it kind of an uneven cash flow wise is that the city only make debt payments twice a year and once in June and once in December and one of those payments, depending on which bond issue it is, pays principal in December, which distorts the number in total until those payments have been made. City Manager Malone said that the administrative fee is also normally done at the end of the year. Mr. Anderson explained that they normally transfer the sanitation fee collection once or twice a year, which is a matter of convenience. That money is billed on the water bill and collected in the Water and Sewer Fund, and then it is transferred to the General Fund. Mr. Anderson advised that he brought that up to date in May and he will probably transfer whatever is accumulated since then. Councilman Bell stated that the department head requested $7,786,057.00. Mr. Anderson advised that is all the Water and Sewer related departments, which would include, not only Mr. Campbell's departments, but two departments that Terry Townsend has. Mr. Townsend's departments maintain water and sewer lines, and it also includes the two departments that he has that are water- related which is the Warehouse and Water Billing and Collection Department. City Manager Malone advised that the Department Heads make all their requests through him. Then Mr. Anderson puts the budget together. Department Heads do not do any calculations on the salary and payroll.