Entire Document - Chris Hani District Municipality

57. COMPARISON WITH THE BUDGETBudgeted amounts for expenditure have been exceeded as indicated below:30 June 2012 30 June 2011CHRIS HANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY ANNUAL REPORT 2011 / 2012Category of Expenditure Budgeted Actual Budgeted ActualAmount Amount Amount AmountR R R REmployee Related Costs - - 117 855 703 139 455 717Remuneration of Councillors - - 6 537 547 6 655 249Depreciation and Amortisation 3 008 480 88 787 929 84 800 89 066 102Impairment Losses - - - 75 488 769Repairs and Maintenance - - 2 838 908 12 840 735Finance Costs - - 1 041 035 4 070 095Contracted Services - - 685 536 40 494 801General Expenses - - 52 780 730 71 083 236Loss on Disposal of Property, Plant andEquipment- 40 217 - 4 393 204The excess expenditure has not been authorised and is disclosed as such in Note44.1.The excess expenditure is to a large extent caused by the integration of thetransactions incurred by the Local Municipalities for Sanitation and Water Servicesinto the municipality’s records, which transactions have not been budgeted for.Details of the operating results per category of expenditure for the current year,together with an explanation of significant variances of more than 10% from budget,are listed below.216