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Governmental Funds — Governmental funds are used to account for essentially the same functions <br />reported as governmental activities in the government -wide financial statements. However, unlike the <br />government -wide financial statements, governmental fund statements focus on near-term inflows and <br />outflows of spendable resources, as well as on balances of spendable resources available at the end of the <br />fiscal year. Such information may be useful in evaluating a government's near-term financial capacity. <br />Because the focus of governmental funds is narrower than that of the government -wide financial <br />statements, it is useful to compare the information presented for government funds with similar <br />information presented for governmental activities in the government -wide financial statements. By doing <br />so, readers may better understand the long-term impact of the government's near-term financing <br />decisions. Both the governmental fund balance sheet and the governmental fund statement of revenues, <br />expenditures, and changes in fund balances provide a reconciliation to facilitate this comparison between <br />governmental funds and governmental activities. These reconciliations are presented on the page <br />immediately following each governmental fund financial statement. <br />The City has 25 governmental funds, of which two are considered a major fund for presentation <br />purposes. Major funds are presented separately in the governmental fund balance sheet and in the <br />governmental fund statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balances. The City's two <br />major funds are the General Fund and the Capital Improvement Capital Project Fund. Individual fund <br />data for each of the non -major governmental funds are provided in the form of combining statements <br />elsewhere in this report. <br />The City adopts an annual appropriated budget for its General Fund and all other major and non -major <br />funds. Budgetary comparison statements are elsewhere in this report to demonstrate compliance with the <br />adopted budget. <br />Proprietary Funds — The City maintains two different types of proprietary funds: enterprise funds and <br />internal service funds. Enterprise funds are used to report the functions presented as business -type <br />activities in the government -wide financial statements. The City uses an enterprise fund to account for its <br />Water Pollution Control Plant, Shoreline, Storm Water, and Environmental Services. Internal service <br />funds are used to accumulate and allocate costs internally among various City functions. The City uses <br />internal service funds to account for the fleet of vehicles, building and facilities maintenance, insurance <br />services, and information systems. Because these services primarily benefit governmental rather than <br />business -type functions, these are included within governmental activities in the governmental -wide <br />financial statements. <br />Proprietary funds provide the same type of information as the government -wide financial statements, but <br />in greater detail. The proprietary fund financial statements provide separate information for the entire <br />City's proprietary funds. Conversely, internal service funds are combined into a single, aggregated <br />presentation in the proprietary financial statements. Individual fund data for the proprietary and internal <br />service funds are provided in the form of combining statements elsewhere in the report. <br />Fiduciary Funds — Fiduciary funds, consisting solely of trust and agency funds, are used to account for <br />resources held for the benefit of parties outside the government. Fiduciary funds are not reflected in the <br />government -wide financial statements because the resources of these funds are not available to support <br />the City's own programs. The accounting used for these funds is much like that used for governmental <br />funds. These funds are reported in a separate statement of fiduciary assets. <br />fd <br />