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Cash Management
The City's investment policy is to minimize credit and market risks while maintaining a competitive
yield on its portfolio. Accordingly, deposits were either insured by federal depository insurance or
collateralized. All collateral on deposits was held either by the City or its agent. All investments held
by the City during the year and at June 30, 2016 are classified in various levels of fair value hierarchy
as defined by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.
The City's cash management program provided the City with interest earnings totaling $3,481,487 for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016 as compared to $3,037,517 in the prior year. Cash balances are
analyzed daily to forecast the amount of funds required and amounts available for investment. The
average amount of funds invested per month totaled $329,252,260 during the year. The City's
average yield on investments for the year was 1.06%, up from 0.98% in the prior year. Interest
earnings were the equivalent of nearly 1.38 cents on the tax rate for FY 2015-16 compared to 1.23
cents last year.
B. Proprietary Funds
Proprietary Funds provide the same type of information found in the government-wide financial
statements but in more detail. Other factors concerning the finances of the proprietary funds have
already been addressed in the discussion of the City of Greensboro’s business-type activities.
General Fund Budgetary Highlights
The General Fund budget for FY 2015-16 was adopted at $267,937,148 (excluding carry-forward
encumbrances) and represents an increase of approximately 3.3% compared to the adopted FY 2014-
15 budget. Encumbrances of $3,293,817 were carried forward from FY 2015 commitments.
Significant variances from the
original
and
final amended
budget follow:
The General Fund budget increased by $2,080,432 from original to final amended in FY 2016 for
programs being funded by appropriated fund balance.
As of June 30, 2016, the City had collected $264.5 million or 101.6% of its budgeted General Fund
revenues and had incurred $260.6 million or 96.5% of its budgeted expenditures. Significant
differences between
actual results
and the
final amended
budget are highlighted below:
Overall General Fund revenues were higher compared to the final amended budget by
approximately $4.3 million primarily in the areas of local option sales tax ($1.5 million) and
significantly better actual results for state-shared electric utility sales tax ($4 million).
Revenue generated from fines and forfeitures was lower than the final amended budget by
approximately $881 thousand.
Actual expenditures compared to final budget were less by $9.4 million or approximately
3.9%, noting approximately $1.6 million in savings in building maintenance costs in
Engineering and Building Maintenance, $1.8 million less for Field Operations, approximately
$2.8 million net overall savings in public safety operations, and $2 million in savings within
the Culture and Recreation department. Overall the General Fund recognized approximately
$1.5 million in savings due to lower fuel costs. Additional savings were also generated in
other City programs.