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General
Information on Financial Transparency
Lakewood
Ledger - This is the City's online tool for residents to better
understand how Lakewood spends taxpayer funds. The tool allows viewers
to search the City's spending accounts by expense type, department,
fund and by vendor name. It includes payments made through procurement
cards that function like credit cards, accounts payable vouchers
and other payment methods. Users can click through various summary
levels to get to detailed information for each expense. It is an
easy-to-use tool that displays information in an understandable
format. Any search can be limited to a user's specified date range.
Click
here for Lakewood Ledger
Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report (CAFR) - This report is what the City
did financially for the year. This report contains the City's audited
financial statements including the notes to the financial statements
for the year. The financial statements report the year-end financial
results for the City. The comprehensive report also includes Management's
Discussion and Analysis, revenues and expenditures comparisons to
approved budget by fund and statistical information. The CAFR is
typically published in July of each year and also is made available
in hard copy or compact disc(CD).
Click
here to review any of the last five years of the Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report
Annual
Budget - This is what the City plans to do financially. The
Annual Budget serves as the funding plan for policies, goals, and
service-levels as determined by the City Council. This document
is a comprehensive decision-making tool that provides detail for
the current year Revised Budget (Revised) and the following year's
Budget. The budget includes historical results, budget data, and
forecasted (estimated) data beyond the budget year. The budget provides
fund summary reports as well as program budgets that identify activities
and financial detail for each City department. The department/division
and program summaries provide assistance to the reader in understanding
historical data along with the current year's budgetary detail.
The budget is typically adopted at the last council meeting in September
and published in October of each year. It is also made available
in hard copy or compact disc (CD).
Additional detailed
information is provided in the Annual Budget Supplemental Data which
consists of the line item detail for each Program Structure within
each Department and a Revenue and Expenditure schedule for each
Business Unit.
The Budget in
Brief is an executive summary of the year's budget along with other
statistical information.
Click
here to view the current year's Annual Budget, the previous four
years' of budgets including the supplemental data and Budget in
Brief
General
Fund Monthly Report - This is an analysis of the current year
activity compared to budget and to prior year results for the same
month.
Fiscal
Facts - This is a two-page report providing current year budget
data and comparisons with other municipalities within the Denver
Metro area on certain components like sales tax rate and mill levy
rate.
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the Finance Department
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