Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
Provides eligible metropolitan cities and urban counties with annual direct grants to revitalize neighborhoods; expand affordable housing and economic opportunities; and/or improve community facilities and services, principally to benefit low- and moderate- income persons. A special district that can issue tax-exempt and taxable bonds as a mechanism by which public entities finance construction and/or acquisition of facilities and provide public services to the district.
Community Facilities District (CFD) Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Conditional Use Permit (CUP)
A grant program that provides partial funding of salaries for several front line law enforcement positions.
Allows a city or county to consider special uses which may be essential or desirable to a particular community, but which are not allowed as a matter of right within a zoning district, through a public hearing process.
Congestion Management Plan (CMP)
Defines a network of state highways and arterials, level of service standards and related procedures.
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
A statistical description of price levels provided by the U.S. Department of Labor. The change in this index from year to year is used to measure the cost of living and economic inflation.
Contingency Reserve
The City has established a policy to set aside a percentage of its General Fund operating expenditures as a contingency reserve.
Cost Allocated
A method used to charge General Fund costs budgeted in one department to another department or another fund.
Debt Service
The payment of principal and interest on borrowed funds such as bonds.
Department, (Function) Division
Section Organizational units within the Operations Budget that group resources together to provide related types of services.
Discretionary Funding Opportunities
Pertains to funds, grants or other resources that are not restricted as to use.
Drug Abuse Resistance Program (DARE)
DARE – a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teaches children from kindergarten through 12th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug- and violence-free lives (www.dare.com). An encumbrance is not an expenditure, but a reservation of funds to be expended at a future date. A commitment is usually made through a purchase order for the future payment of goods and services not yet received or paid for. This fund type is used to account for operations that are: (a) financed and operated in a manner similar to private sector enterprises and it is the City’s intent that the costs (including depreciation) of providing goods or services to the general public be financed or recovered primarily through user charges.
Encumbrance
Enterprise Fund
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