MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

The capital projects funds are used to account for financial resources to be used for the acquisition, construction, or renovation of major fixed assets. The City of Fayetteville has three Capital Projects Funds: (1) Building Fund (2) Impact Fee Fund and (3) Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) Fund.

The special revenue funds are used to account for specific revenues that are legally restricted to expenditures for particular purposes. The City of Fayetteville has five Special Revenue Funds: (1) Confiscated Assets Fund, (2) Hotel/Motel Tax Fund, (3) Vehicle Excise Tax Fund (4) Cemetery Fund, and (5) Veterans Memorial.

Proprietary Funds

Proprietary funds are activities that a City operates similar to a business in that it attempts to recover costs through charges to the user. The City’s only proprietary funds are enterprise funds. Enterprise funds may be used to account for any activity or service that charges a fee to external users to cover the cost of operations, including cost of depreciation and debt service. The City operates its water and sewer fund and solid waste fund as enterprise funds. Proprietary fund statements use the accrual basis of accounting similar to the City-wide statements.

Financial Analysis

As was previously stated, the FY2011 total net assets represent an increase of 1.64% over FY2010. The City is experiencing difficult economic concerns that have affected some revenue sources: local option sales tax, building permits and licenses, and contributed capital. See Tables 1 (Statement of Net Assets on pages 11 and 12) and 2 (Statement of Activities on pages 13 and 14) for a schedule of net assets and change in net assets.