Fort Walton Beach — Fiscal Year 2024-25 Adopted Budget — reading text

Statement: A document prepared for potential investors that contains information about a prospective bond or note issue and the issuer. The official statement is typically published with the notice of sale. It is sometimes called an offering circular or prospectus. Operating Budget: A plan of proposed expenditures for personnel, supplies, and other expenses for the coming fiscal year. Overlapping Debt: A community's proportionate share of the debt incurred by an overlapping government entity, such as a regional school district, regional transit authority, etc. Performance Budget: A budget that stresses output both in terms of economy and efficiency. Principal: The face amount of a bond, exclusive of accrued interest. Program: A combination of activities to accomplish an end. Program Budget: A budget that relates expenditures to the programs they fund. The emphasis of a program budget is on output. Purchased Services: The cost of services that are provided by a vendor. Refunding of Debt: Transaction where one bond issue is redeemed and replaced by a new bond issue under conditions generally more favorable to the issuer. Reserve Fund: An amount set aside annually within the budget of a town to provide a funding source for extraordinary or unforeseen expenditures. Revaluation: The assessors of each community are responsible for developing a reasonable and realistic program to achieve the fair cash valuation of property in accordance with constitutional and statutory requirements. The nature and extent of that program will depend on the assessors’ analysis and consideration of many factors, including, but not limited to, the status of City of Fort Walton Beach | Budget Book 2025 Page 361  the existing valuation system, the results of an in-depth sales ratio study, and the accuracy of existing property record information. Revenue Anticipation Note (RAN): A short-term loan issued to be paid off by revenues, such as tax collections and state aid. RANs are full faith and credit obligations. Revenue Bond: A bond payable from and secured solely by specific revenues and thereby not a full faith and credit obligation. Revolving Fund: Allows a community to raise revenues from a specific service and use those revenues without appropriation to support the service. Sale of Real Estate Fund: A fund established to account for the proceeds of the sale of municipal real estate other than proceeds acquired through tax title foreclosure. Stabilization Fund: A fund designed to accumulate amounts for capital and other future spending purposes, although it may be appropriated for any lawful purpose. Surplus Revenue: The amount by which cash, accounts receivable, and other assets exceed liabilities and reserves. Tax Rate: The amount of property tax stated in terms of a unit of the municipal tax base; for example, $14.80 per $1,000 of assessed valuation of taxable real and personal property. Tax Title Foreclosure: The procedure initiated by a municipality to obtain legal title to real property already in tax title and on which property taxes are overdue. Trust Fund: In general, a fund for money donated or transferred to a municipality with specific instructions on its use. As custodian of trust funds, the treasurer invests and expends such funds as stipulated by trust agreements, as directed by the commissioners of trust funds or by the community's legislative body. Both principal and interest may be used if the trust is established as an expendable trust. For nonexpendable trust funds, only interest (not principal) may be expended as directed. Uncollected Funds: Recently deposited checks included in an account’s balance but drawn on other banks and not yet credited by the Federal Reserve Bank or local clearinghouse to the bank cashing the checks. (These funds may not be loaned or used as part of the bank’s reserves and they are not available for disbursement.) Undesignated Fund Balance: Monies in the various government funds as of the end of the fiscal year that are neither encumbered nor reserved, and are therefore available for expenditure once certified as part of free cash. Unreserved Fund Balance (Surplus Revenue Account): The amount by which cash, accounts receivable, and other assets exceed liabilities and restricted reserves. It is akin to a "stockholders’ equity" account on a corporate balance sheet. It is not, however, available for appropriation in full because a portion of the assets listed as "accounts receivable" may be taxes receivable and uncollected. (See Free Cash) Valuation (100 Percent): The legal requirement that a community’s assessed value on property must reflect its market, or full and fair cash value. City of Fort Walton Beach | Budget Book 2025 Page 362