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From YouTube: City of Bloomington, IL - Budget 101 Part 3
Description
The City of Bloomington just kicked off it’s 2022 Budget review to determine how it will allocate more than $240 million during its next fiscal year. This 4-part series is designed to give residents a general overview of the budget and how it’s designed so you can have a clear idea of where your tax dollars are proposed to be spent.
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Let's
talk
about
the
budget
and
key
components
and
use
fiscal
2021.
As
an
example,
the
total
budget
city-wide
is
230.3
million.
That's
an
increase
of
2.8
million
dollars
over
the
fiscal
20
adopted
budget
or
1.2
percent.
The
general
fund
budget
for
fiscal
21
is
presented
at
110.2
million,
which
is
an
increase
of
1.2
million
over
fiscal
20
or
1.1
percent
other
highlights
in
the
fiscal
21
budget
included
capital
projects,
totaling
41
million
dollars,
that's
an
increase
of
just
under
1
million
dollars
from
the
prior
fiscal
year
or
2.2
percent.
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Major
tax
revenues
have
been
tracked
by
month
for
over
15
years
to
model
seasonality,
human
resources,
compensation
is
entered
by
employee
based
on
union
contracts,
which
there
are
currently
11
salary
bans,
health,
imrf,
pension
rates,
etc,
departments,
all
other
operating
level
accounts,
revenue
and
expenses,
and
capital
projects
are
completed
by
departments.
Amounts
are
entered
into
a
four-year
average
tracking
worksheet
for
comparison
and
review
process
by
the
finance
department.
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Transaction
descriptions
aren't
to
be
included
by
departments,
consolidation,
finance,
consolidates
all
of
this
information
and
reviews
for
variances.
Balancing
finance
presents
findings
to
its
city
administration,
then,
to
the
city
council
and
to
the
community
on
this
screen.
You
can
see
how
the
budget
dollars
are
allocated
as
an
example
using
the
fiscal
21
budget.
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Following
that,
the
water
fund
is
nearly
25
million
dollars
or
11,
followed
by
insurance
and
internal
service
funds,
which
are
17
million
dollars
or
seven,
and
a
half
percent
followed
by
the
sewer
fund
at
11
million
and
including
the
arena
at
5
million,
which
is
just
under
2
percent.
All
other
funds
are
about
4.8
million
or
2.1
percent
of
the
budget,
getting
us
to
our
total
of
230
million
dollars
for
the
adopted
budget
for
fiscal
2021.
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Public
works
maintained
over
803
lane
miles.
This
includes
repair
traffic
engineering
lights,
snow
removal,
resurfacing
oversight,
the
solid
waste
department
had
trash
recycling,
hauled
of
over
22
000
tons,
45.5
million
pounds,
they
hauled
over
34
971
cubic
yards
of
brush
and
the
sewer
water
system
maintained,
equaled,
1128
miles
water
pumped
3.6
billion
gallons
annually,
9.8
million
gallons
per
day
administration,
finance
processed
over
375
000
utility
bills
and
related
payments.
The
city
clerk
office
had
over
thirty
five
thousand
phone
calls
received,
and
fourteen
hundred
foia
requests
that
were
processed.
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The
legal
department
had
over
one
thousand
administrative
court
cases
processed.
The
human
resources
department
had
four
thousand
applications
processed
with
a
hundred
full-time
built
positions
being
filled,
and
the
information
services
department
maintains
over
three
thousand
devices
and
a
hundred
applications
maintained
over
40
different
locations.