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BUDGET GUIDE 4 The City of San Leandro's biennial budget is a financial plan and includes the biennial operating budget and the capital improvement plan that support the Council's Vision and Goals. It also represents the official organizational plan by which City policies, priorities and programs are implemented. The biennial budget serves as a communication tool with the residents, businesses and employees about how the City's financial resources are allocated to provide services to the community. The following is a brief outline of the contents of the biennial budget book with details found in Section 21 Appendices: Budget Message (Section 2): The City Manager's Budget Message aims to provide the reader with highlights of the operating and capital budgets and a sufficient context to understand how and why budgetary changes occurred between fiscal years. Community Profile (Section 3): The purpose of this section is to give the reader an at- a -glance look at the City's attributes, including information on education, housing, transportation, and City heritage, as well as demographic data and basic infrastructure statistics. Financial Summary (Section 4): Summary of all funds, financial analyses, tables and charts, and provides a summary of assumptions used in creating the multi-year forecasts. General Fund (Section 5): City's discretionary General Fund summaries of expenditures and revenues, detailed summaries of key General Fund revenues, ten-year forecast and reserves. Other Funds, Enterprise/Internal Service Funds, and Successor Agency Funds (Sections 6, 7 and 8): Six-year forecasts and summaries for the City's key non -General Fund operating funds. Staffing (Section 9): The Staffing section includes job titles of the full-time and part-time positions authorized for each Department and a comparative table that provides five years of budget data. Departments (Sections 10-18): Provides department organizational charts, departmental descriptions, accomplishments, goals, program changes and financial summaries. Capital Improvement Projects (Section 19): Overview of major capital projects and the revenues, expenditures and staff authorized to support these projects. SAN, .