1. USER FRIENDLY BUDGET Jon and Joe Show Continued!

2. MORE GREAT TEAMS OF THE PAST

3. USER FRIENDLY BUDGET LAYOUT Narrative UFB-1 Revenue Summary UFB-2 Appropriation Summary UFB-3 Structural Imbalances UFB-4 Tax Impact & RUT UFB-5 Tax Assessments UFB-6 Tax Abatements UFB-7 Personnel Costs UFB-8 Health Benefits UFB-9 Debt UFB-10 Shared Services

4. NARRATIVE The narrative provides: 1. A brief overview of the document and its purpose 2. An overview of the information being collected and the reason for collecting and presenting the data

5. UFB-1 REVENUE SUMMARY Source: 1.Budget Document Sheets 4 thru 11 2.Budget Document Sheets 31 & 34 When dealing with utilities the only logical place for the various revenues is under Local Revenues

6. UFB-1 REVENUE SUMMARY

7. UFB-2 APPROPRIATION SUMMARY Source: 1.Budget Document Sheets 12-30 2.Utility Sheets 32 thru 36 Utilities were assigned based upon where they fit logically. Comments: Headcount was an interesting exercise Allocated positions across various areas

8. UFB-2 APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

9. UFB-3 STRUCTURAL IMBALANCES Source: 1.Budget Document Sheet 3B(2) This was a straight copy job from the budget document. The debate becomes what you feel should be disclosed on this form.

10. UFB-3 STRUCTURAL IMBALANCES

11. UFB-4 TAX IMPACT & RUT Source: 1.Tax Assessor or Tax Collector’s office, final certified tax levy from the County Board of Taxation 2.Sheet 22 of the AFS 3.Sheet 25 of the AFS 4.Sheet 26 of the AFS Comments:  There was no provision for a Spec Dist.

12. UFB-4 TAX IMPACT & RUT

13. UFB-5 TAX IMPACT & RUT Source: 1.Tax Assessor or Tax Collector’s office, “Tax List District Summary” 2.An alternate source would be the “Table of Aggregates” but this fails to provide the number of properties under the exempt codes 3.Tax Assessor will be the source for Tax Appeals Data

14. UFB-5 TAX IMPACT & RUT

15. UFB-6 TAX ABATEMENTS Source: 1.Tax Assessor

16. UFB-6 TAX ABATEMENTS

17. POLL QUESTION #3

18. UFB-7 PERSONNEL COSTS Source: 1.This is going to require you to analyze your data in a different way 2.I started with my totals and then backed out the data for the various categories 3.The Number of employees here is misleading as it combines the FT and PT employees Comment: Pension Rates are now different

19. UFB-7 PERSONNEL COSTS

20. UFB-8 HEALTH BENEFITS Source: 1.This is going to require you to analyze your data in a different way 2.Will be interesting to see how the data is used once all towns are up and running

21. UFB-8 HEALTH BENEFITS

22. UFB-9 DEBT Source: 1.Annual Debt Statement 2.Sheet 1 of the AFS (Census) 3.The area in yellow is highlighted because I have BANs only and am projecting that future years will be the same as the current year. 4.The information on future years is similar to what we put on the budget advertisement, just two more years.

23. UFB-9 DEBT

24. UFB-10 SHARED SERVICES Source: 1.Various Shared Service Agreements that your town may have Comments: 1.I have included many that are not formal 2.Not All Shared Service Agreements require the formality of a written document (Many are done on a handshake)

25. UFB-10 SHARED SERVICES

26. GENERAL COMMENTS 1.Formatting throughout the document required some attention 2.Formulas still need some work but were workable 3.The Volunteers for the Pilot program will be providing feedback to the Division to incorporate into the final version 4.The way you capture data for your budget planning will most likely be impacted in order to present information on the user friendly budget 5.Most of the information being requested is readily available from other documents that we are already producing

27. QUESTIONS ?