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The Champion, Thursday, June 18 - 24, 2015
Staff transitions
motivate Clarkston
budget amendment
by Ashley Oglesby
ashley@dekalbchamp.com
Clarkston City Council
amended its operating budget
from $4.3 million to $4 mil
lion at a council meeting on
June 2.
City Manager Keith
Barker said due to changes
in staff within the finance de
partment, preparation of an
amended budget document
had not been done.
City officials approve an
annual budget at the begin
ning of each fiscal year based
on projected revenues and
expenditures.
Financial Director Dan
Defnall said, “We are propos
ing amending the final 2014
operating budget to match up
with the revenues and expen
ditures. Throughout the year
the revenues flow from the
budget and with the changing
of priority of projects.”
He added that the ma
jority of the changes in the
increase of the budget relate
to capital projects items that
were funded from proceeds
from either capital assets or
long-term financing for the
streetscapes project.
Defnall said, “In the orig
inal budget those items were
not included because [there
was not] a budget plan at that
time of what was going to
happen on those projects.”
This fiscal year Clarkston
had a 7 percent increase in
the general fund balance and
Barker
an 11 percent increase in rev
enues, according to Barker.
Barker said, “That’s just
the general fund. If you’re
looking at all funds which
will account for moving mon
ey from the special revenue
fund to the general fund, i.e.
capital fund changes..., then
we had a variance of only 3
percent of our expenditure
numbers and a variance of
three percent in our revenue
numbers.”
He added, “I’m very
pleased with that number
and that’s a very acceptable
variance. I would anticipate
that variance will even be
gin to shrink now that we’ve
got more qualified finance
individuals to help the city
manager and the city clerk
manage those numbers.
“We’re finally getting to
where we need to get in terms
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of trying to get a 100 percent
clean audit report,” Barker
said.
“Budgeting is a science
and an art, it’s not exact be
cause what we’re doing is
anticipating expenditures
that will sometimes come 15
months from the date that we
are anticipating those num
bers,” Barker said.
He said throughout the
year, various factors influence
the budget, which impacts
projected revenues and affect
necessary expenditures.
“What we should be
looking at as city manager
and elected officials is how
accurate are we in anticipat
ing and managing both ex
penditures and revenues,” he
added.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR
CLARKSTON MILLAGE RATE
Notice is hereby given that prior to
setting the tax millage rate for 2015,
the Clarkston Mayor and Council will
hold a Public Hearing at City Hall, 3921
Church Street, Clarkston Georgia, on
Wednesday, July 1,2015 at 7:00pm
and Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 10:00am
on the proposed millage rate. The City
Council is proposing to adopt a millage
rate for 2015 that exceed the rollback
rate by 53.80 percent. All concerned
citizens are invited to attend.
REPORT OF EAST METRO DEKALB COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT OF PROPOSED MILLAGE RATE
In compliance with O.C.G.A. §48-5, the East Metro DeKalb Community
Improvement District (“CID”) reports that at its meeting on June 23,2015,beginning at 9:00
A.M. at 3951 Snapfinger Parkway, Suite 440, Decatur, Georgia 30035, the East Metro DeKalb
CID Board of Directors will vote upon a proposal to levy an ad valorem taxation rate of 3
mills, and will set its millage rate for the lawful purposes of the District for the current
calendar year. Set forth below are the assessed taxable values of the properties subject to
taxes for the current year and the total dollar amount of ad valorem taxes proposed to be
levied for the current year. All property levied upon is real property. Because this CID was
created this year, there are no preceding years of assessed taxable values, taxes, and changes
to report.
Assessed Value
Taxes Levied
% Change
$ Change
2014 $58,682,641
$176,047
00%
$0.00