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 FY2012 total net assets represent a decrease of (.77%) over FY 2011. The City is starting to see changes in the economy that have affected some revenue sources: improvement in local option sales tax and other taxes with a decrease in capital grant monies. See Tables 1 (Statement of Net Assets on pages 12 and 13) and 2 (Statement of Activities on pages 14 and 15) for a schedule of net assets and change in net assets.