Town of Copake Budget for 2008

Copake’s adopted budget for 2008 is available in two parts:

            Appropriations

            Revenues

 The form of the budget is required by New York’s Office of the State Controller, described in the Accounting and Reporting Manual, available on-line by clicking Manual. The Classification and Coding structure is given in Chapter 5. To help understand the budget, three parts of this Code are listed here.

 

            Expenditure Codes have 5 digits. The first 4 digits define general categories.

            1000-1999     General Government Support

            2000-2999     Education

            3000-3999     Public Safety

            4000-4999     Health

            5000-5999     Transportation

            6000-6999     Economic Assistance and Opportunity

            7000-7999     Culture and recreation

            8000-8999     Home and Community Service

            9000-9099     Employee Benefits

            9700-9799     Debt Service

            9900-9999     Interfund Transfer

 

            The fifth digit in the code is a secondary classification given by the following list.

                        .1            Personal Services

                        .2            Equipment and Capital Outlay

                        .4            Contractual

                        .6            Debt Principal

                        .7            Debt Interest

                        .8            Employee Benefits

                        .9            Interfund Transfer

 

            CONTRACTUAL expense (.4) is expanded further as shown in the second list.

                        .41            Supplies and Materials

                        .42            Utilities

                        .43            Insurance

                        .44            Professional and Technical Services

                        .45            Rent or Lease

                        .46            Operation and Maintenance

                        .47            Miscellaneous

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