Avondale public money
← Avondale community hubFY2021 Budget & Spending
A plain-language look at Avondale's adopted budget for July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021.
Budget at a glance
Avondale adopted a $280.1 million FY2021 budget
Key adopted-budget measures for FY2021, presented in the same location used across the Avondale budget archive.
The $280,109,400 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 FY2020?
The adopted budget increased by about $43.4 million
Avondale’s FY2021 adopted budget was $280,109,400, compared with $236,699,249 in the FY2020 adopted/adjusted comparison. That is an increase of $43,410,151, or 18.3%.
Avondale prepared the FY2021 budget while COVID-19 was creating substantial uncertainty about revenues and economic conditions.
The City retained its pre-pandemic revenue forecast while stating that staff would monitor actual conditions and make adjustments as needed.
Supplemental requests were divided between items funded to move forward July 1 and items made contingent on available funding.
The budget identified General Fund savings above the City's 35% reserve-policy requirement as a source available for selected investments.
Where the money goes
FY2021 spending by major purpose
These are the resident-facing budget categories presented in the Budget in Brief.
Budget by fund
Another way to look at the $280,109,400 budget
| Fund group | FY2021 adopted budget |
|---|---|
| General Fund | $81,336,400 |
| Special Revenue | $39,521,900 |
| Debt Service | $9,527,000 |
| Capital Projects | $79,974,000 |
| Trust & Agency | $5,000 |
| Enterprise | $62,638,200 |
| Internal Service | $7,106,900 |
| Total | $280,109,400 |
The statutory fund groups shown here reconcile to the adopted all-funds total.
Where the money comes from
Two different FY2021 revenue measures
Property taxes
The combined City property-tax rate was 1.4242
Capital projects
$116,591,000 in FY2021 formal capital appropriations
The formal capital appropriation was $116,591,000. A separate Budget in Brief capital figure was not provided in the archived official FY2021 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 FY2021 projects
FY2021 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.
General Government Operating Funds
General Government Operating Funds projects
Utilities Operating Funds
Utilities Operating Funds projects
Public Safety Operating Funds
Public Safety Operating Funds projects
Transportation Operating Funds
Transportation Operating Funds projects
General Government
General Government projects
Parks and Culture Operating Funds
Parks and Culture Operating Funds projects
Utilities
Utilities projects
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 FY2021 budget documents
These entries come from records explicitly classified in the canonical dataset as technology or public-safety evidence.
| Item | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Security camera maintenance | The Recommended Budget included a $7,500 ongoing request for maintenance and support of security cameras at libraries, City locations, and traffic signals. The City described the cameras as supporting enhanced surveillance and police crime analysis. | FY2021 City Manager Recommended Budget |
| Security Cameras and Equipment | The Recommended Budget included $100,000 for the Public Safety capital project "Security Cameras and Equipment," described as cameras at City locations and traffic signals supporting enhanced surveillance and police crime analysis. | FY2021 City Manager Recommended Budget |
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. Historical PDFs are also retained by Our West Valley AZ so the source record is preserved if City URLs change.