Discretely Presented Component Unit The City has one component unit, Forney Economic Development Corporation (“EDC”). The EDC was incorporated September 15, 1994 and is governed by a seven-member board appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the City Council. Thus, the EDC is legally separate, but due to the City appointing the voting majority of the EDC board, it is classified as a discretely presented component unit. The funding for the EDC occurs by the City transferring ¼ of City sales tax collections to the EDC. Adding the creation of the EDC to the resources currently available will more than double the current ability to assist economic development prospects. All of the EDC funding can be used for direct assistance to business prospects and continued development of infrastructure. The nature and significance of the relationship between the primary government and the organization is such that exclusion would cause the City’s financial statements to be misleading or incomplete. The EDC does not issue separate financial statements. B. Government-wide and Fund Financial Statements The basic financial statements include both government-wide (based on the City as a whole) and fund financial statements. The government-wide financial statements (i.e., the statement of net position and the statement of activities) report information on all of the nonfiduciary activities of the primary government and its component units. For the most part, the effect of interfund activity has been removed from these statements. Governmental activities, which normally are supported by taxes and intergovernmental revenues, are reported separately from business-type activities, which rely to a significant extent on fees and charges for support. Likewise, the primary government is reported separately from certain legally separate component units for which the primary government is financially accountable. The government-wide statement of activities demonstrates the degree to which the direct expenses of a functional category (Public Safety, Public Works, etc.) or segment are offset by program revenues. Direct expenses are those that are clearly identifiable with specific function or segment. Program revenues include (1) charges to customers or applicants who purchase, use, or directly benefit from goods, services, or privileges provided by a given function or segment, and (2) grants and contributions that are restricted to meeting the operational or capital requirements of a particular function or segment. Taxes and other items not properly included among program revenues are reported instead as general revenues. The net cost (by function or business-type activity) is normally covered by general revenue (property and sales taxes, franchise fees, and interest income). Separate financial statements are provided for governmental funds and proprietary funds.. Major individual governmental funds and major individual enterprise funds are reported as separate columns in the fund financial statements. GASB Statement No. 34 sets forth minimum criteria (percentage of assets, liabilities, revenues or expenditures/expenses of either fund category for the governmental and enterprise combined) for the determination of major funds. The nonmajor funds are combined in a separate column in the fund financial statements. The nonmajor funds are detailed in the combining section of the statements. The government-wide focus is more on the sustainability of the City as an entity and the change in aggregate financial position resulting from the activities of the fiscal period. The focus of the fund financial statements is on the major individual funds of the governmental and business-type categories and the component units. Each presentation provides valuable information that can be analyzed and compared to enhance the usefulness of the information.
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