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The remainder of fund balance is reserved to indicate that it is not available for new spending because it has already been committed 1) prepaid items ($54,648), 2) to pay debt service ($5,022,328), and 3) to pay for tax increment projects ($1,241,212). The General Fund is the chief operating fund of the City of St. Anthony, Minnesota. At the end of the current fiscal year, unreserved fund balance of the General Fund was $1,471,584, while total fund balance reached $1,525,433. As a measure of the General Fund's liquidity, it may be useful to compare both unreserved fund balance and total fund balance to total fund expenditures. Unreserved fund balance represents 28.3% of total General Fund expenditures and total fund balance represents 29.3% of that same amount. During the current fiscal year, the fund balance in the General Fund increased by $84,929. The City's Water Filtration and Purification Fund had a total fund balance of $5,226,484. The Street Improvement Debt Service Fund increased by $1,270,415 as annual debt payment requirements were less than assessment collections, property tax collections, bond proceeds and interest. The HRA Debt Service Fund increased by $171,104 as the annual debt service requirements were less than the revenue collected. The Street Improvement Projects Fund decreased by $536,182 as the construction costs incurred were more than the bond proceeds and other funding sources. The HRA Projects Funds increased by $372,458 to a balance of $1,279,858. The key factor in this was tax increment collections exceeded expenditures. The Storm Water Improvement Fund decreased by $124,117 as a result of construction payments for the Water Reuse Project. The Silver Lake Road Project Fund decreased $236,701 as a result of the year -to -date construction costs and payments to Hennepin County. The 2009 Street Improvement Project Fund increased by $270,726 as a result of the sale of a $2,630,000 Road Improvement Bond, payments to contractors and pending final construction expenses. Non -major Special Revenue Funds decreased by $22,377 to a balance of $103,616. Non -major Debt Service Funds had a total fund balance of $1,127,314, all of which is reserved for the payment of debt service. The net increase in fund balance during the current year in the non -major debt service funds was $854,781. Non -major Capital Project Funds had a total fund balance of $151,937, a decrease of $26,292. X31]