Re: [Mpls] Here is the 2003 Minneapolis Spending Plan -

[Becker]

Ken Bradley wrote: "I am no expert at city spending but a quick look at the expenditures would want me to have more detailed information about Public Works, MCDA, Debt Service, and Other. I always have interest in the expenditure under the category of "Other" and would like more information. I am curious what is "Transfer to Other Funds"? "   You can get the budget documents on line to get a full breakdown of "other" but looking quickly it looks like things like Civil Rights, the Assessor, the Council, the Mayor, the Attorney's Office, the Clerk's Office, the CRA, etc. Transfers to other Funds is when money is moved from one fund ( a fund is like a checking account for a particular department or service) to another.  A lot of that money it transferred around to pay for internal services, i.e. police "pays" the fleet services for squad cars and transfers money to them to do so from the police "account".  Or the snow plowing budget pays the Equipment Division for snowplows.  There are a bunch of services that function like this - the computer department, the fleet management department, the copy shop, etc.  Funds are also transferred around to pay for things like liability insurance, which is carried in a central budget.  Also there are transfers of money for other reasons, like entertainment tax is collected into the sales tax fund, but then transferred to the General Fund (the place where the general property tax-supported activities are).  Another example is that the "profits" from the Parking Fund are transferred to the General Fund.  Again, you can dig these out of the budget book.   Carol Becker Longfellow