The City strives to meet a high standard for Financial Transparency online and developed a financial transparency page where the City's check register, stimulus grant funding, budget documents, and financial reports are published.
Mission Statement
In order to support sound financial decisions, fiscal responsibility, and quality customer service, the Accounting Division will:
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Provide accurate, useful, and timely information to both internal and external
financial statement users.
- Safeguard the City's assets through the implementation of sound yet practical
internal controls.
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Be dedicated to providing citizens and City Departments with quality service.
Services
If you are a vendor wondering how to get paid for goods and/or services delivered to the City, a customer with questions about your Emergency Medical Services billing, or someone interested in purchasing a Northgate Parking Garage license, or a cemtery plot. Accounting can show you the way.
Although our primary job is to provide accounting support to the Mayor, City Council, and City Departments, we also provide the following services:
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- Collect Hotel-Motel tax
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Manage delinquent account collections and NSF checks
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Issue Deposit Refunds
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Process all employee salary wages/benefits and pay
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Maintain City governmental capital asset database
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Process and account for all City receipts
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Prepare
Popular Financial Report
Accounting prepares the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). For twenty-six out of the last twenty-seven years, the Government Finance Officers Association has awarded the City a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. This award is the highest form of recognition for excellence in state and local government financial reporting.