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CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS <br />MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS (continued) <br />At the end of the current fiscal year, the City is able to report positive balances in all three categories of <br />net assets, both for the government as a whole, as well as for its separate governmental and business-type <br />activities. <br />Governmental Activities. <br /> A comparison of program expenses to program revenues and revenues by <br />source for governmental activities follows: <br />Expenses and Program Revenues -Governmental Activities <br />20,000 <br />18,000 <br />16,000 <br />Expenses <br />14,000 <br />Program Revenues <br />12,000 <br />10,000 <br />8,000 <br />6,000 <br />4,000 <br />2,000 <br />0 <br />General Public Public Culture and Health, Interest on <br />GovernmentSafetyWorksRecreationWelfare and Long-term <br />Sanitationdebt <br />Revenue sources for governmental activities were distributed as follows: <br />Revenues by Source -Governmental Activities <br />Grants and <br />Charges for <br />contributions <br />services <br />3% <br />17% <br />Other taxes <br />22% <br />Property taxes <br />Industrial <br />36% <br />payments <br />22% <br />For the year ended September 30, 2012, revenues without transfers in the governmental activities <br />totaled $49.9 million. This represents an increase of approximately $0.0 million or 0.1%. In the prior <br />year, the City realized a gain of $4.2 million on the sale of property. During the current year, they <br />received only $1.9 million from the sale of property but had an increase in sales tax revenues of $2.1 <br />million due to increased economic activity and an additional ¼ cent emergency service sales tax. <br />7 <br /> <br />