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The Finance Department has the fiduciary responsibility to safeguard the
City's
financial assets and manage them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
and financial management principles. Our department's mission is to provide professional
financial services to City Manager, Council, and City departments in order
to promote fiscal stability and integrity.
Our primary focus is support for the various City departments
as well as external organizations. We provide relevant
financial and managerial information in an accurate and timely
manner, and professional direction and advice to promote
current and future fiscal integrity.
We measure our success in several ways: through "clean" audit
and internal control opinions from our independent auditors,
the reception of Government Finance Officers Association awards
for our audit and budget documents, and maintenance of some of the
highest credit ratings from Moody's and Standard & Poor's
for a city our size.
The general functions of Finance include budgeting, financial
reporting, cash management, purchasing, utility billing, revenue
collection, investment portfolio management, debt administration,
accounts payable, banking services, along with the coordination
and implementation of related internal controls.
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