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Finance advisory committee: Measure W first-quarter receipts $1.08 million; $647,000 spent and roughly $400,000 reserved
Summary
Committee heard a first-quarter report on Measure W sales-tax receipts, actual expenditures against a $763,000 council-directed spending plan, accounting treatment for the fund, and how payments to the Desert Recreation District will be handled during annexation.
Cathedral City’s Finance Advisory Committee was briefed on Measure W receipts and spending for the first quarter, with staff reporting $1,080,000 in receipts and $647,000 in actual expenditures, leaving roughly $400,000 in reserves.
Finance staff said the committee originally budgeted for $763,000 of council-directed items in the quarter — including a fourth ambulance purchase, outfitting, up to six temporary full-time equivalents for two months, ambulance equipment and supplies, Desert Recreation District (DRD) activation and swim program costs — but actual spending totaled about $647,000.
The committee heard that Measure W is the city’s half-cent sales tax; staff noted it is expected to be roughly half of Measure B, the city’s 1% general sales tax. “Vendors report quarterly to the…
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