{
  "id": "city-general-fund-budget-actual",
  "title": "City General Fund: budget vs actual",
  "subtitle": "FY2025 · final budget and audited actual",
  "rows": [
    {
      "label": "Resources · final budget",
      "value": 599734907,
      "entity": "CEP",
      "field": "general_fund_resources_final_budget",
      "page": 159
    },
    {
      "label": "Resources · actual",
      "value": 599340000,
      "entity": "CEP",
      "field": "general_fund_resources_actual",
      "page": 159
    },
    {
      "label": "Charges · final budget",
      "value": 599734908,
      "entity": "CEP",
      "field": "general_fund_charges_final_budget",
      "page": 160
    },
    {
      "label": "Charges · actual",
      "value": 606216520,
      "entity": "CEP",
      "field": "general_fund_charges_actual",
      "page": 160
    }
  ],
  "summary": "For FY2025, audited General Fund current-year resources were $394,907 below the final budget, while charges to appropriations were $6,481,612 above final appropriations. The schedule reports an ending fund balance of $161,616,210.",
  "spanish": "En el año fiscal 2025, los recursos auditados del Fondo General fueron $394,907 menores que el presupuesto final, mientras que los cargos a las asignaciones superaron las asignaciones finales por $6,481,612. El saldo final del fondo fue $161,616,210.",
  "question": "Which departments and budget amendments explain the difference, and how much was planned use of fund balance?",
  "reporting_period": "Fiscal year ended August 31, 2025",
  "source_title": "City of El Paso FY2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report",
  "source_url": "https://www.elpasotexas.gov/assets/Documents/CoEP/Office-of-the-Comptroller/Fiscal-Reports/Financial-Reports/FY-2025-ACFR.pdf",
  "source_sha256": "459cb4a9be9f0bbc8272b9257d6fcb2cbd420c2558c7d7940218e7de2fab62b9",
  "source_retrieved_at": "2026-10-09T05:00:00.000Z",
  "caveat": "General Fund only. “Charges to appropriations” are budget-basis outflows, not every City expense or a cash checkbook. Variances alone do not establish mismanagement.",
  "methodology": "Values are transcribed from the audited General Fund budget-to-actual schedule on PDF pages 159–160 (printed pages 109–110).",
  "format": "usd_millions",
  "unit_label": "US dollars",
  "badge": "AUDITED GENERAL FUND · FY2025",
  "version": "8fbc408e582991ca",
  "published_at": "2026-10-09T05:59:59.228Z",
  "base": "/press/archive/city-general-fund-budget-actual/8fbc408e582991ca",
  "live": "/press/live/city-general-fund-budget-actual"
}