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Finance staff walk commissioners through enterprise and special revenue funds and capital roll-up
Summary
City finance staff gave a high-level orientation to non-general funds, noting staff manages 20–30 special revenue funds with distinct owners, a revenue stabilization fund, facility funds and fiduciary/pension funds, and consolidated capital requests of $23M with $15.9M recommended by the budget team.
Wyatt Papenfous explained the distinction between governmental activities (general fund, capital projects, debt service) and enterprise/business-type activities (transit, water, solid waste) and said understanding non-general funds is critical to long-term decision-making. He noted that special revenue funds typically have restricted uses set by grantors or enabling legislation and that the city has historically had 20–30 funds depending on programs in place.
Staff presented consolidated capital requests rolled up by fund: roughly $23,000,000 requested for 2027 with about $15,900,000 preliminarily approved by the internal budget team. Wyatt and Susan described funds set-asides such as a revenue stabilization fund and fund 475 (capital equipment) where portions of enterprise transfers are allocated. They asked commissioners to look in the packet for fund-by-fund details and said finance is available for follow-up questions and departmental deep dives.
