Mayor Nutter 's Fiscal Year 2016

have evaluated the City of Haltom’s Annual Budget for Fiscal 2016 budget using the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) recommended budget practices. The Annual Budget was reviewed under four major categories which are as follows: policy document, financial plan, operations guide, and communication device. Using the GFOA awards scale my rating of the budget for each individual category and the budget as a whole is a 4 (outstanding). The City of Haltom has received the GFOA Certificate of Achievement for fiscal years 1987-2014. The budgets prepared for submission have been recognized with the GFOA Distinguished Budget award annually since 1989 with exception of one year. The City continues to participate successfully in these two programs and follow mandatory and non-mandatory guidelines of the GFOA. The City of Haltom Budget is very transparent and provides a great deal of information to its citizens whom the city views at the top of the organizational chart for the city. The City’s budget for FY2016 appears to continue to conform to the GFOA program requirements and upon submission of their budget I have no doubt their budget for FY 2016 will receive a GFOA Distinguished Budget award.

The unexpected closing of the local plant due to the downturn in the economy and the amount of layoffs as a result has reduced the amount of income tax collected in the city. Income taxes fund 23% of the projected budget revenues for police and fire services. The lowering of the available revenues from income tax for funding of police and fire services will have dire repercussions. The projected income for the fire department is greatly needed to replace the aging truck fleet. The loss of this income could result in loss of life because the city has insufficient fire trucks that operate

BUDGET ANALYSIS OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX-2016 WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF MEETING THE NEEDS OF CITY

In the budget documents mention that the focus of the county will be emergency preparedness, fire protection and public safety; protect public health; promote healthier communities and living habits; conduct elections; maintain a strong, vibrant public library system; expand and protect park and open space resources and continue to promote sustainability and conservation. they will also complete Phase 1B of the County Operations Center and Annex redevelopment project and will start work on a new Sheriff's

The city of Long Beach has an abundance of culture, resources, diversity and means. This reflection is what attracts many people to visit downtown, attend school and other surrounding vicinities. At the close of Fiscal Year 2015, “the City’s assets increased $118.9 million, or 3.5 percent from the prior fiscal year. Citywide, assets increased $282.3 million or 5.0 percent” (Finance, 2016). The report also states, “sales tax revenues increased 8.6 percent or $5.1 million. Other taxes, inclusive of transient occupancy and business taxes increased 937 percent or $4.0 million (Finance, 2016). Residents and visitors vast amount of travel and contributions to the city, allows those funds to be allocated to other public services in the community.

save quite a bit of money that could be used for other things within the department.

There should be an increment or flex pay plan for the residents who are suddenly constrained with higher property taxes. This way they can gradually increase their payments, instead of their payments ballooning at one time. There should be low-interest loans or funding for established small and minority-owned businesses wanting to upgrade their business. The community should be made aware of any funds that will allow them to improve their homes and keep in line with the revitalization.

This budget contains grants, reimbursements from schools, and payments that is from schools. $72.9 billion was set aside for public and higher education institutions. Most of the money is difficult to get if it is for a project that it was not intended for. Since the legislature cannot take money out of these two accounts when they would like, they just cut the budget. This is to give them more wiggle room in other areas that they would like to see the budget go to. There is a cycle that can be seen throughout the government. If the state wants money they need to spend what they have in order to receive federal

North Carolina’s General Fund revenues have shown an increase since the 2009 recession. Profits have increase about 3.3% on average each year (North Carolina Office of State Budget, 2016). According to the North Carolina General Assembly the enacted General Fund Budget for the 2016-2017 fiscal year totals $21,919,468,078. Of this over $21 billion dollar budget about $12 billion is earmark by lawmakers for education. K-12 public education has been allocated $8,419,444,621 for the 2016-2017 school year (North Carolina Office of State Budget, 2016). Below is a breakdown of North Carolina’s tax revenue sources that make up the General Fund Budget and an analysis of the current

The federal government and states each have budgets that outline the amount of money that will be collected from taxes, how much will be spent in revenues, and what programs will receive money allocated to them from these expenditures. Every fiscal year, the federal budget and state budgets are reset so that they start from October 1st until the end of September of the following year. The federal government’s budget contains allocations for health care, pensions, education, defense, and welfare. The State of Colorado’s budget contains expenditures allocated to education, health care, pensions, protection, transport, and welfare (Chantrill, 2015). The

A large portion of the funds is set to go towards law enforcement, with $185 million to Homeland Security and $86 million towards the NYPD.

However, since the date of his arrival on the job until today, the Public Works Director has been directly involved in several projects to ensure the public and private investments in the City of Blythe are completed to the highest public works standards.

As mentioned by Thompson (2010), in the Associated Press, “Lawmakers bridged a $19 billion shortfall, more than 20 percent of the $87.5 billion general fund spending plan”. This shows that the state was heading towards a financial crisis and more deficit creation. Moreover, Thompson (2010), in the Associated Press also points out that “It includes no tax or fee increases but uses a combination of cuts, funding shifts, delayed corporate tax breaks and assumptions about money the state hopes to receive”. The budget gave rise to other dependent costs such as delayed tax refunds. It was uncertain that the State will receive the required funds from the federal government to ensure that the important programs will function the way it used to be until the funds are received.

Funding: It is not clear what funding is available or could be made available if the those police precincts that are a member of this group would make the IT upgrade a

The costs in creating this unit are estimated at $7.5 million. $3.2 million is associated with officers’ salaries. Department division staff will receive about $2.3 million. Benefits will cost $1.5 million. Training is estimated to project $94,000. Communication is allocated at $80,000.