Friday, November 8, 2013
Ollie, Ollie, Oxen Free !!! Lisle Park District's 2014 Proposed Budget is Out of Hiding
Last week, the Lisle Park District Board of Commissioner's meeting agenda included a discussion of the proposed draft budget for FY 2014. However, despite a new transparency effort to post board packets online before commission meetings, the draft 2014 budget was not posted on the District's website. And it still isn't.
Lisle Watchdog submitted a FOIA last week to obtain a copy of the 2014 draft budget.
Ollie, Ollie, Oken Free!
Click the link to download the entire 2014 draft budget.
http://bit.ly/1emy9mx
Notably, there is no overall "executive summary" of proposed budget revenue and expenditures, so one has to take the time to go through the budget fund-by-fund, section-by-section, line-by-line, all 145 pages, and compare previous year's actual revenues and expenditures to the proposed revenues and expenditures for next year.
Here are some of the budget highlights....
Corporate Fund: (primary revenue source is property tax) pg 17
Revenue Expenditures Surplus (Deficit)
2011 Actual 2,068,938 2,103,192 ( 34,254)
2012 Actual 2,145,937 2,299,826 ( 153,889)
2013 Projected Actual 2,122,408 2,356,290 ( 233,882)
2014 Proposed Budget 2,888,300(*) 2,555,362(**) 332,938
(*) 36% higher than 2013 projected actual revenues
(**) 8.5% higher than 2013 projected actual expenditures
Recreation Fund: (revenue sources are program fees subsidized w/ property taxes) pg 114
Revenue Expenditures Surplus (Deficit)
2011 Actual 2,348,570 2,338,117 10,453
2012 Actual 2,478,709 2,240,313 238,396
2013 Projected Actual 2,425,820 2,035,242 390,578
2014 Proposed Budget 2,009,062(*) 2,260,478(**) (251,416)
(*) 17% lower than 2013 projected actual revenues
(**) 11% higher than 2013 projected actual expenditures
Golf & Restaurant Fund: (revenue sources are program fees) pg 144
Revenue Expenditures Surplus (Deficit)
2011 Actual 1,999,996 1,824,464 175,532
2012 Actual 1,843,754 1,698,501 145,253
2013 Projected Actual 1,872,921 1,944,546 ( 71,625)
2014 Proposed Budget 1,877,917(*) 1,927,195(**) ( 49,278)
(*) 0.2% higher than 2013 projected actual revenues
(**) 0.9% lower than 2013 projected actual expenditures
IMRF Pension Fund: (revenue source is property taxes) pg 123
Revenue Expenditures Surplus (Deficit)
2011 Actual 235,152 272,392 ( 37,240)
2012 Actual 249,766 252,628 ( 2,862)
2013 Projected Actual 339,921 260,000 79,921
2014 Proposed Budget 375,050(*) 275,000 (**) 100,050
(*) 10% lower than 2013 projected actual revenues
(**) 5.8% higher than 2013 projected actual expenditures
Trips & Conventions for Elected Officials
One line that really caught our attention was the proposed huge increase for expenditures in the budget for the Board of Commissioners (elected officials), primarily allocated for conference expenses.
Board of Commissioners Expenses (page 8)
2011 Actual 1,086
2012 Actual 733
2013 Projected Actual 2,509
2014 Proposed Budget 11,500
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