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FY2020 Budget & Spending

A plain-language look at Avondale's adopted budget for July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020.

Budget at a glance

Avondale adopted a $236.7 million FY2020 budget

The FY2020 adopted budget authorizes $236,699,250 in budgeted expenditures and expenses.

Adopted budget $236,699,250
Capital budget N/A*
Projected revenue N/A*
Property-tax rate 1.6543

The $236,699,250 budget is not the same thing as taxes collected in one year

Total municipal budgets can include current revenue, accumulated fund balances, grants, utility revenue, debt proceeds, transfers and other available resources.

What changed from FY2019?

The adopted budget decreased by about $7.1 million

Avondale’s FY2020 adopted budget was $236,699,250, compared with $243,782,010 in the FY2019 adopted/adjusted comparison. That is a decrease of $7,082,760, or 2.9%.

MeasureFY2019FY2020Change
Adopted budget$243,782,010$236,699,250−$7,082,760 (−2.9%)

Where the money goes

FY2020 spending by major purpose

These resident-facing categories come from FY2020 Final Budget budget by expenditure category.

Operating N/A* · 48%
Capital N/A* · 42%
Debt Service N/A* · 5%
Contingency N/A* · 5%
These resident-facing expenditure categories are a separate presentation from the statutory seven-fund accounting view and should not be presented as a fund reconciliation.

Budget by fund

Another way to look at the $236,699,250 budget

Fund groupFY2020 adopted budget
General Fund$65,994,459
Special Revenue$27,051,255
Debt Service$10,237,810
Capital Projects$66,580,420
Trust & Agency$5,000
Enterprise$60,180,071
Internal Service$6,650,235
Total$236,699,250

The statutory fund groups shown here reconcile to the adopted all-funds total.

Where the money comes from

Two different FY2020 revenue measures

N/A* Budget in Brief projected revenues
$144,147,335 Statutory estimated revenues other than property taxes
Resident-facing projected revenue and statutory revenue are different measures and must not be presented as interchangeable.

Property taxes

The combined City property-tax rate was 1.6543

Primary levy $3,039,967
Secondary levy $4,141,443
Total levy $7,181,410
Primary rate 0.7003
Secondary rate 0.9540
Combined rate 1.6543

Capital projects

$100,735,862 in FY2020 formal capital appropriations

The formal capital appropriation was $100,735,862. A separate Budget in Brief capital figure was not provided in the archived official FY2020 source set.

Capital figures need context

The Capital Projects Fund, formal capital appropriation, Budget in Brief capital figure and detailed CIP project totals are separate measures unless the source explicitly reconciles them.

Major FY2020 projects

FY2020 Total is the current-year project total printed in the City's individual CIP project record. The complete capital plan contains additional projects not shown here.

Major

Major projects

Festival Fields PK1105 FY2020 new $4.000M · carryover $13.500M
$17.500M
Resource Center GG1410 FY2020 new $2.755M · carryover $8.966M
$11.721M
Property and Evidence Room PL1161 FY2020 new $6.635M · carryover $2.882M
$9.517M
North Avondale Water Supply WA1469 FY2020 new $6.600M · carryover $762K
$7.362M
107th Avenue/McDowell Road Widening ST1224 FY2020 new $200K · carryover $2.639M
$2.839M
Vehicle Replacement VR5200 FY2020 new $564K · carryover $2.000M
$2.564M
Large Diameter Sewer Line Repair Program SW1356 FY2020 new $1.000M · carryover $1.521M
$2.521M
Reservoir Coating Repairs and Rehabilitation WA1372 FY2020 new $1.100M · carryover $1.269M
$2.369M
White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Settlement WA1285 FY2020 new $865K · carryover $1.438M
$2.303M
Dysart Road Sewer Replacement - Riley to Corral SW1389 FY2020 new $2.000M · carryover $250K
$2.250M
Major-project totals are based on FY2020 CIP project records and are separate from the statutory Capital Projects Fund.

These are budgeted project amounts, not proof of actual spending

These are budgeted project-record amounts and do not establish actual expenditures or project completion.

Technology & public-safety items

Technology identified in the FY2020 budget documents

These entries come from records explicitly classified in the canonical dataset as technology or public-safety evidence.

No technology or public-safety spending records were promoted into the validated FY2020 canonical dataset.
Budget records establish what was requested, budgeted, appropriated or described. They do not by themselves prove purchase, installation, activation, deployment or actual expenditure. A generic camera, GPS system, body-worn camera or drone is not automatically an ALPR/LPR system.

How to read this page

Budgeted does not necessarily mean spent

An adopted budget authorizes spending. It does not necessarily mean the entire amount was ultimately spent.

A budget entry also does not prove that equipment was purchased, a vendor contract was signed, or a project was completed.

Contracts, purchase orders, invoices and audited actual expenditures provide additional evidence about what happened after funding was approved.

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Primary sources

These City of Avondale documents are the primary sources for this page.

Our West Valley AZ retains the City-source PDFs used for analysis so historical evidence is preserved if City URLs change.
Renderer source: validated OWVAZ canonical budget dataset.