2009-10 Adopted Budget - City of Hoquiam

Operating Budget Expenditures and Staffing Levels, 2000-2010The following pages provide a summary of operating budget expenditures andappropriations as well as full time equivalent staffing levels from 2000 though 2010.This section defines the City’s operating budget as including allappropriations/expenditures from the following funds:• General Fund• Cemetery Fund• Street Fund• Arterial Street Fund• Ambulance• Sanitation• Landfill Postclosure Fund• Water, Sewer and Storm Fund• Internal Service FundsInterfund transfers are excluded from this analysis.The table entitled Departmental Expenditures/Appropriations provides a summary ofeach department’s expenditures from 2000 through 2010. This table illustrates the smallgrowth in operating expenses over the past 10 years, as operating expenditures haveonly grown from $10.6 million in 2000 to $13.1 million in 2010.This small growth, driven primarily by increases in public safety and utility operatingrequirements, is explained in the table entitled Departmental Staffing Levels, 2000through 2010. Between 2000 and 2010, full time equivalent staffing levels decreasedfrom 106.9 full time equivalents (FTE’s) in 2000 to 88.0 FTE’s in 2010.The chart entitled 2000-2010 Appropriations and Full Time Equivalent Staff illustratesthe trend in expenditure and staffing growth from 2000 though 2010.122