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MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS statements, governmental fund financial statements focus on near-term inflows and outflows of spendable resources, as well as on balances of spendable resources available at the end of the fiscal year. Such information may be useful in evaluating the City's near-term financing requirements. Because the focus of governmental funds is narrower than that of the government-wide financial statements, it is useful to compare the information presented for governmental funds with similar information presented for governmental activities in the government-wide financial statements. By doing so, readers may better understand the long-term impact of the City's near-term financing decisions. Both the governmental fund balance sheet and the governmental fund statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balances provide a reconciliation to facilitate this comparison between governmental funds and governmental activities. The City of Redwood City maintains 27 individual governmental funds. Information is presented separately in the governmental fund balance sheet and in the governmental fund statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balances for the general fund, the capital outlay fund, and the redevelopment agency fund, which are considered to be major funds. Data from the other 24 governmental funds are combined into a single, aggregated presentation. Individual fund data for each of these non-major governmental funds is provided in the form of combining statements elsewhere in this report. The City of Redwood City adopts an annual appropriated budget for its general fund and redevelopment agency fund. A budgetary comparison statement has been provided for the general fund and redevelopment agency fund to demonstrate compliance with this budget. The governmental fund financial statements may be found on pages 18-21 of this report. Proprietary funds are maintained in two ways. Enterprise funds are used to report the same functions presented as business-type activities in the government-wide financial statements. The City uses enterprise funds to account for water, sewer, parking, and Port operations. Internal services funds are used to account for costs of the City's equipment services, the City's insurance program, the costs of the City's telephone/communications and information technology services, maintenance and repair of buildings, custodial services, delivery service, and employee benefits. Because these services predominantly benefit governmental rather than business-type functions, they have been included within governmental activities in the government-wide financial statements. The proprietary fund financial statements may be found on page 22-24 of this report Since the City's internal service funds provide goods and services only to the City's governmental and business- type activities, their activities are reported only in total at the fund level. Internal service funds may not be major funds because their revenues are derived from other City funds. These revenues are eliminated in the City-wide financial statements and any related profits or losses are returned to the activities which created them, along with any residual net assets of the internal service funds. Comparisons of budget and actual financial information are presented only for the general fund and other major funds that are special revenue funds. Fiduciary Funds The City maintains fiduciary funds that account for tax free employee and employer contributions made under the provisions of section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code (cafeteria benefits fund), for employer contributions to a retiree medical insurance fund, and for transactions involving the Seaport Consolidated Assessment District, the Pacific Shores Community Facilities District, and the Shores Transportation Improvement District. The City's fiduciary activities are reported in the separate Statements of Fiduciary Net Assets and the Agency Funds Statement of Changes in Assets and Liabilities. The accounting used for fiduciary funds is much like that used for proprietary funds. These activities are excluded from the City's other financial statements because the City cannot use these assets to finance its own operations. The fiduciary fund financial statement may be found on page 25 of this report. 5