GENERAL FUND REVENUE INMILLIONS Sales and Use Tax revenue makes up 28.3% of the General Fund, which is 1% of all taxable sales. Property Taxes account for 26.4% of the General Fund and come from the City’s $0.0279158 tax rate, which funds operations. Service Charges (21.8% of revenues) include ambulance fees, parks and recreation fees and administration fees from the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ). Franchise fees (9.0% of revenues) come from utilities (gas, cable, electric, telephone and garbage) for use of City right of ways.
HOW THE CITY ALLOCATES MONEY FROM THE GENERAL FUND ($80.4 MILLION) Adopted General Fund expenditures for Fiscal Year 2019 total $80,424,112. Public Safety (Police & Fire) accounts for 56.3 of the total budget as services are provided 24/7. There are 647 positions (full and part-time) in the General Fund of which 389.5 or 60% are Public Safety related.
Sales & Use Taxes
$22,855,294 $21,332,769 $17,618,566 $7,296,694 $3,785,535 $4,560,460 $2,110,750 $1,233,806 $80,793,874
28.3% 26.4% 21.8% 9.0% 4.7% 5.6% 2.6% 1.5% 100%
Property Taxes
Police
$28,069,784 $17,188,821 $12,651,388 $6,335,737 $4,307,687 $3,108,649 $3,024,785 $2,420,199 $2,201,814 $1,115,248 $80,424,112
34.9% 21.4% 15.7% 7.8% 5.4% 3.9% 3.8% 3.0% 2.7% 1.4% 100%
Charges for Services
Fire
Franchise Fees
Public Works
Licenses & Permits
Parks & Recreation Community Services
Transfers In
Fines & Forfeitures
Other Requirements/Transfers
Miscellaneous
Information Technology General Government
Total Expenditures
Finance
Human Resources
Total Expenditures
TOTAL GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES (BY EXPENSE TYPE)
GENERAL FUND HIGHLIGHTS
Salaries and Wages Miscellaneous Services Materials and Supplies
$58,806,243 $10,809,209 $2,333,953 $2,158,391 $1,941,461 $1,878,309 $1,375,798
73.1% 13.4%
$241,569 CONTINUOUS ONBOARDING FIRE DEPARTMENT $285,010 PATROL OFFICERS POLICE DEPARTMENT
3.0% 2.7% 2.4% 2.3% 1.7%
This funding represents a Continuous Onboarding program that begins in the 3rd quarter of FY19 that would bring onboard a total of 6 new firefighters by the end of the Fiscal Year, reducing overtime and preparing for the opening of future Fire Stations.
Building & Grounds
Equipment Maintenance Motor Pool Transfers
Transfers Inventory
$443,865 $425,638 $251,245
.6% .5% .3%
Budget to add four police officers, which brings the total patrol staffing up to 103 police officers to keep the residents of Pearland safe.
Capital Outlay
Other
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