Accuracy of Cumulative Budgeted Expenses ($ millions)
Analysis of Performance
Governmental:
$9.0 million favorable variance YTD. $9.5 million timing variance in Sustainability Services for the purchase of the Albertson's and hotel property expected to close in late Q2 or early Q3. $2.1 million over budget with Poudre Fire Authority resulting from timing of sales/use tax and property tax collections running ahead of budget and distributions to PFA now based on actuals as part of updated IGA. Overall favorable variance of $3.3M in IES is primarily tied to $3.1 million in YTD Medical/Dental claims savings. Police Services is $1.2 million over budget due to full staffing levels and higher O/T.
Utilities:
$2.9 million under budget YTD, plus approximately $900k was incorrectly charged to L&P for PILOTs in March and will be corrected in April.
Monitoring staffing levels, personnel costs and associated vacancy factors. 2Q QSARS will address potential 5% reductions to 2025/2026 expenditures.
Metric Definition
Expenditures are separated into Governmental and Enterprise. Governmental expenditures are for those activities that are primarily supported by taxes and grants and to a much lesser degree from fees. Examples are Police, Streets Maintenance, Parks, Museum, Fire, etc. Alternatively, Enterprise expenditures related to activities that are accounted for like a business and are entirely supported by fees charged to users. These include Light and Power, Water, Wastewater, Storm Drainage and Golf.