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What is the definition of a full-service city? 


What is the General Fund?

A Fund of a city is no more complicated that having a checking account.  The Bank in this case is the city of Lincoln.  First thing to remember is that all the Funds in the city are really co-mingled, much like a bank is co-mingled.  When you deposit money in a Bank account they don’t take your money and put it in a lock box, they put it in a vault, where it is mixed with other money, and then they record the fact that you have deposited that money.

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What is the Cost of Public Safety?


I hear the terms General Fund, Special Fund, Capital Project Funds, etc. versus Enterprise Funds but I don’t understand why we cannot just transfer the money around as needed such as for Public Safety?