City of Irvine - Fiscal Year 2019-21 Proposed Budget

GLOSSARY

Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

A grant program that provides partial funding of salaries for several front line law enforcement positions.

Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)

The summarization of the City's financial activity for the previous fiscal year which also includes a summarization of significant milestones that were accomplished during the year by department, fiscal policies, and statistical information. The CAFR is prepared by December of each year. 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.

Conditional Use Permit (CUP)

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, 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 Education (DARE)

A police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teaches children from kindergarten through 12 th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug- and violence-free lives (www.dare.com).

Eastern/Foothill Transportation Corridor (E/FTC)

A network of toll roads extending from Anaheim Hills south to Coto de Caza.

Encumbrance

An amount of money committed for the payment of goods and services not yet received or paid for.

FY 2019-21 Proposed Budget

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