2021-COH - Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

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Total expenses increased by $80.2 million, which represented a 14 percent change from the prior year. There were retroactive pay raises resulting from bargaining unit negotiations, as well as the typical increases in salaries and wages and related employment benefit costs across all functions in the current fiscal year. The County also incurred approximately $77.1 million of expenditures while responding to the additional needs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. These expenditures were funded by just one of the many federal grants received by the County to assist in dealing with the financial burden resulting from the pandemic. The charts below illustrate the County's governmental expenses and revenues by function, and its revenues by source. As shown,public safety is the largest function in expense (53 percent), followed by general government(13 percent) and highways and streets (11 percent). General revenues such as property and other taxes are not shown by program,but are effectively used to support program activities countywide. For governmental activities overall, without regard to programs,property taxes are the largest single source of funds (52 percent), followed by operating grants and contributions (24 percent) and other taxes (12 percent). Expenses and Program Revenues—Governmental Activities Year Ended June 30,2021 $400,000,000 $350,000,000 $300,000,000 Expenses ■Program revenues $250,000,000 $200,000,000 $150,000,000 $100,000,000 $50,000,000 �a�a a a C ,Z• era ��. �� - 21 -