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DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET NARRATIVE <br /> FUND: General <br /> DEPARTMENT: Elections <br /> DEPARTMENT OBJECTIVE <br /> The objective of the Elections Department is to provide for fair and efficient federal, <br /> state and county and municipal elections. <br /> DEPARTMENT ACTIVIITt✓S <br /> The Election Department Budget funds those election activities of the City which <br /> includes the maintenance of voting and ballot counting equipment, supplies, <br /> administration services and election judges for the biannual elections. <br /> DEPARTMENT GOALS <br /> The goal of the Elections Department is to provide the personnel, equipment and <br /> supplies necessary to conduct efficient and legal elections. <br /> DEPARTMENT EXPENDITURE COMMENTS <br /> The 1993 expenditure for this department is $4,600 less than the 1992 budget and is <br /> indicative of the City's practice of budgeting approximately one-half of the cost of <br /> elections in a non-election year (1993) and then appropriating a like amount of Fund <br /> Balance in an election year (1994). <br /> 'ersonne expen•i-T - • - . : : - :: ::: . = : = <br /> incorporating the previously designated four voting precincts into one City-wide <br /> precinct. This action, which was approved by Council in 1992, reduced both the <br /> number and expenditures for election judges. <br /> Overall expenditures are less because there will not be a Presidential Primary <br /> election to be budgeted for in 1994. <br />