The city's entire budget document is available online in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. It has been organized into sections.
Section 0 – Introduction
Includes the names of the council members who adopted the budget, the GFOA budget
award, mission statement and table of contents.
Section 1 - Executive
Summary
A "liftable" summary of the budget, which can be copied and distributed
as necessary to persons who wish to review the budget but who do not need
the entire document. Included in this section:
- Budget Message
- Discussion of Fiscal Policies, Standards and CIP
- Debt Information
- Fund Structure and Basis of Accounting
- Budgetary Guidelines
- Budget Process
- Summary of Historical Budget Information
- Key Changes in the 2008 Budget
- Organizational Chart and Summary of Personnel Changes
- Performance Management Initiative
Section 2 - Summary
Detailed revenue and expenditure summaries for all budgeted funds.
Section 3 - Revenues – All
Funds
Forecast methodologies and revenue sources for the entire budget.
Section 4 - Fund
Budgets
Revenue and expenditure budgets for each individual fund. Two years of actual
information, current year estimates and budgeted amounts for all revenues
and expenditures are presented for each fund.
Section 5 - Supplemental
Information
General background information and facts about the City of Overland Park
and its services.
Section 6 - Goal Area Budgets by Cost Center
Individual tabs are provided for each major section (Goal
Area) of General Fund expenditures:
Each Goal Area is introduced by a goal, a list of cost centers within the area, a comparison of funding sources and expenditure types and a summary of cost center expenditures.
Provided by Cost Center within each Goal Area are goals and objectives, performance measures, personnel schedules and budgeted expenditures by account.
Section 7 - Capital Improvements
Program
This section contains information on the 2008-2012
Capital Improvements Program (CIP). Overall goals, objectives, financial
standards, graphs on CIP data, operational impact and detailed listings of
individual 2008-2012 CIP projects are included.
Section 8 - Maintenance
Program
This is a consolidated summary of all maintenance expenditures and funding
sources. It includes information regarding total infrastructure and facility
maintenance expenditures from various funds for 2008.
Section 9 - Glossary
Includes definitions for terminology that may not be easily understood by
the common reader.
Section 10 - Index
Included as a reference to aid in locating information.