FY 17 Annual Report

General Fund Expenditures

2017

CITY OF SPENCER, IOWA

STREET DEPARTMENT - GENERAL OPERATIONS

DEPARTMENT INFORMATION

The Street Department is responsible for over 85 miles of paved streets and 5.4 miles of gravel streets. In addition to street maintenance and cleaning, the Department is also responsible for maintaining the city's sewer lines, as well as assisting at the tree site. Expenditures for the Street Department - General Operations were higher in FY17 by $36,227.21 (+5.45%) compared to FY16. The largest increases were seen in the Salaries & Wages and Repairs, Maintenance and Utilities and Commodities areas. Expenditures in Contractual Services were lower then FY16 expenditures. The increase in Salaries and Wages is due in part to how the City calculates those budgets. During the budgeting process, the City estimates how many hours each Departmental employee will spend in each of the given functions. These estimates are determined based on the past 5-years of actual hours worked. Depending on how the years progresses will depend on how the actual hours worked compared to the budgeted hours. For example, the past couple of years, the City has expended less on Snow Removal salaries than what was budgeted. However, the employees still worked the same number of hours in the year. These hours are just reassigned to a different function, such as General Street Operations. The increase in Repairs, Maintenance and Utilities is due to an increase in equipment repairs. The Department expended 91.83% of its budget in FY17. The Street Department has twelve full-time and two part-time/seasonal employees, including the Street Superintendent. There were no changes in employee levels within the Street Department for FY17.

CURRENT BUDGET

YEAR TO DATE

% OF

ACTUAL FY 2016

ACTUAL

BUDGET

SALARIES & WAGES REPAIRS, MAINT, UTIL CONTRACTUAL SVCS

385,030.00 175,800.00 144,620.00 55,000.00

403,951.25 168,568.82 81,992.17 43,598.95

104.91

359,400.97 135,533.99 127,123.09 39,825.93

95.89 56.69 79.27

COMMODITIES TRANSFERS

2,653.00

2,653.00

2,653.00

100.00

664,536.98

TOTAL STREETS

763,103.00

700,764.19

91.83

GENERAL FUND