CCSD staff presented a draft budget to the Board at last month’s Cambria Community Services District meeting for the 2010-11 fiscal year. At this month’s meeting (Thursday June 24, 2010 at 12:30pm) the Board will consider adoption of the budget by resolution. A revised draft is expected in the next day or two, but in the meantime here are some of the highlights from the May 2010 draft.
The Cambria CSD has two primary income sources: Property Taxes and Utility Sales. These are supplemented by a variety of fees, assessments, interest income, grant funds and other income sources. By state law, income from utility sales is restricted to covering expenditures in the water and wastewater departments. Property tax income is deposited to the General Fund where it is used to cover expenses for Fire, Parks and Recreation, Facilities and Resources, Administration and Resource Conservation department costs. Although General Fund monies can be used to cover costs of the water and/or wastewater departments, that practice is far from best management and recent Board policy is that General Fund money used for Water/Wastewater expenditures be accounted for as a loan that must be repaid.
I’ll leave the analysis and opinion to those of you with greater facility with numbers. What follows are charts showing the ratios of spending in various categories. The numbers are from the May 2010 proposed budget as entered into a spreadsheet and checked for accuracy. To view the spreadsheet used, click here.
Total Proposed Budget Expenditures (All Funds): $ 7,453,214.00
Total Proposed Employee Compensation, Payroll Taxes, Benefits, Allocated Personnel Costs(All Departments): $4,561,801.00
Total Proposed Professional Services (All Departments): $277,180.00 (Total 2009-10 – $314,550.00, Total 2008-09 -$297,290.00 )
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