Expenditures - Operating Expenditures per Household

Expenditures

Operating Expenditures per Household

Description: Operating expenditures per household reflect changes in expenditures relative to changes in population. Increasing per household expenditures can indicate that the cost of providing services is increasing at a pace beyond the city’s ability to pay. If spending is increasing faster than can be accounted for by inflation or new programs, it may indicate that a city is spending more funds to support the same level of services or the methods of providing the services are inefficient.

Warning Trend: Increasing operating expenditures per household

Personnel Costs per Household

Description: Employee wages and benefits can represent a significant cost to a city. Some benefits are mandated such as FICA, workers compensation and unemployment. Others, such as health insurance and retirement are discretionary.

Warning Trend: Increasing personnel costs per household

Personnel Expenditures Per Household

INSTRUCTIONS

For each chart, write a 1-page analysis that should focus on the patterns and their implications as they relate to the warning trends and indicator description. And it should pull it all together and focus on the overall fiscal condition that the trends indicate.

For example:

Warning Trend: Decreasing Total Revenues per Household

The research question is, Is the Total Revenues per Household decreasing?

1) Do the data show an increase, decrease, or stay (stay constant) in the trends?

2) Compare the data to the warning trend and indicator description.

3) Should the organization be concerned? Can it be corrected? How?

4) Your analysis then should explain why what occurred, occurred and its significance and implications.

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