City of La Porte Annual Budget 1991-1992

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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I For brevity sake, we will only provide in-depth detail for those divisions that had a variance greater ten percent. The Criminal Investigation Division is expected to come in under budget by $64,980 and this total amount is attributed to personnel vacancies during the year. Of the $29,689 that the Management Information Systems Division is expected to come in under budget, $21,700 is directly related to improvements to computer systems that were not needed during the year. A change in direction occurred during the fiscal year that resulted in the removing of a major system from our current machine. This change resulted in several modification not being necessary. The Legal Division is the only division that is expected to be over budget for the year. The city is involved in several items that require legal expenses and which are very hard to project their costs accurately. The primary reason for the Customer Service Division expecting to be $24,869 under budget is that our costs for outside appraisal of our industrial plants costs less that originally projected. There are two reasons for our estimated underage in the Non Departmental Division. First, only $90,000 of the $190,000 budgeted contingency was needed and second, our costs for liability insurance continue to drop and were $48,000 less that originally budgeted. In the Streets Division, they did not perform any major street reconstruction during the year and according the $109,740 that was budgeted for the reconstruction was not spent. In addition, they were $68,000 under budget in the personal service area. The Residential Solidwaste Division had a number of items contribute to their expected underage of $147,451. First, their personai services are expected to be $51,885 under budget. This is caused by employee turnover. Next, the cost to purchase plastic trash bags we provide to our customers was much less than it was the year before and resulted in a savings of $56,962. Finally, our landfill costs are $23,652 less that expected and $28,071 less than the prior year. Traffic Control had a variety of items that contributed to their favorable variance of $15,251. They included supplies, utilities and equipment. The Survey/Easement Division's variance of $22,290 was the result of a vacancy in the division for a major part of the year. 1-15