The city budget has two key components: the Operating Budget, which covers the city government’s operating expenses and revenues, and the Capital Budget, which includes major improvement projects, which are generally funded through bond debt. Within the Operating Budget, the city’s enterprise funds, including the electric and water/wastewater utilities, as well as the airport, make up about two-thirds of our projected $1.6 billion revenue. Not surprisingly, the same enterprises also account for most of the expenditures.

Operating Budget and General Fund Budget pie charts

This article appears in August 13 • 1999 and August 13 • 1999 (Cover).

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