For the first time, the City's entire budget document is available online via Adobe Acrobat PDF format. It has been organized into sections.
Section
0 – Introduction
Includes the names of the Council members who adopted the budget,
the GFOA budget award, mission statement and table of contents.
Section
1 - Executive Summary
This is designed to be a "liftable" summary of the budget, which
can be copied and distributed as necessary to persons who wish to review
the
budget but who do not need the entire document. Included in this section
are the following items:
- Budget Message
- Discussion of Fiscal Policies, Standards and CIP
- Debt Information
- Fund Structure and Basis of Accounting
- Budgetary Guidelines
- Budget Process
- Summary of Historical Budget Information
- Key Changes in the 2003 Budget
- Organizational Chart and Summary of Personnel Changes
- Performance Management Initiative
Section
2 - Summary
Detailed revenue and expenditure summaries for
all budgeted funds.
Section
3 - Revenues – All Funds
Forecast methodologies and revenue sources for the entire budget.
Section
4 - Fund Budget
Revenue and expenditure budgets for each individual
fund. Two years of actual information, current year estimates and budgeted
amounts for all revenues and expenditures are presented for each fund.
Section
5 - Supplemental Information
General background information and facts about the City of Overland Park
and its services.
Section 6 - Goal Area Budgets by Cost Center
Individual tabs are provided for each major section (Goal
Area) of General
Fund expenditures as follows:
- Finance and Administration (Blue)
- Public Safety (Red)
- Public Works (Yellow)
- Community Development (Green)
Each Goal Area is introduced by a goal, a list of cost centers within the area, a comparison of funding sources and expenditure types and a summary of cost center expenditures.
Provided by Cost Center within each Goal Area are goals and objectives, performance measures, personnel schedules and budgeted expenditures by account.
Section
7 - Capital Improvements Program
Information on the 2003-2007
Capital Improvements Program (CIP). Overall goals, objectives, financial
standards, graphs on CIP data, operational impact and detailed listings
of individual 2003-2007 CIP projects
are included.
Section
8 - Glossary
The glossary includes definitions for terminology that may not be easily understood
by the common reader.
Section
9 - Index
An index is included as a reference to aid in locating information.