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OVERVIEW OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) Fund Financial Statements — A fund is a grouping of related accounts that is used to maintain control over resources that have been segregated for specific activities or objectives. The City, like other state and local governments, uses fund accounting to ensure and demonstrate compliance with finance -related legal requirements. The funds of the City are divided into three categories —Governmental Funds, Proprietary Funds, and Fiduciary Funds. Governmental Funds — Governmental Funds are used to account for essentially the same functions reported as governmental activities in the government -wide financial statements. However, unlike the government -wide financial statements, Governmental Fund financial statements focus on near -term inflows and outflows of spendable resources, as well as the balances of spendable resources available at the end of the fiscal year. Such information may be useful in evaluating a government'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 government's near -term financing decisions. Both the Governmental Funds balance sheet and the statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balances provide a reconciliation to facilitate the comparison between Governmental Funds and governmental activities. The fund financial statements present information for each Major Governmental Fund in separate columns. Data from the Nonmajor Governmental Funds are combined into a single, aggregated presentation. Individual Fund data for each of these Nonmajor Governmental Funds is provided in the form of combining statements elsewhere in this report. The City adopts an annual appropriated budget for the General Fund and the Economic Development Authority Special Revenue Fund. Budget -to -actual comparisons are provided in this financial report for these funds. Proprietary Funds — The City maintains two different types of Proprietary Funds. Enterprise Funds are used to report the same functions presented as business -type activities in the government -wide financial statements. The City uses one Internal Service Fund to accumulate and allocate insurance costs internally among the various city functions. Because the Internal Service Fund is predominantly used by governmental functions, it is included within governmental activities in the government -wide financial statements. Fiduciary Funds — Fiduciary Funds are used to account for resources held for the benefit of parties outside of the City. Fiduciary Funds are not reflected in the government -wide financial statements because the resources for those funds are not available to support the City's own programs. The accounting used for Fiduciary Funds is much like that used for Proprietary Funds. Notes to Basic Financial Statements — The notes to basic financial statements provide additional information that is essential to a full understanding of the data provided in the government -wide and fund financial statements. Other Information — In addition to the basic financial statements and accompanying notes, the financial section also presents required supplementary information, and the combining and individual fund statements and schedules (presented as supplementary information) referred to earlier in connection with nonmajor governmental funds, which are presented immediately following the basic financial statements. Further, a statistical section has been included as part of the annual comprehensive financial report to facilitate additional analysis, and is the third and final section of the report. 28