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Enterprise Funds

Water and Sewer

FUND SUMMARY

FY2017 FY2018 FY2018 FY2019 Change from Adopted
Final Adopted Adjusted Adopted Amount %
License & Permits 1,278,421 763,685 763,685 798,600 34,915 4.57%
Charge for Service 411,425,106 424,513,758 439,513,758 428,152,033 3,638,275 0.86%
Use of Money & Property 1,908,123 788,384 788,384 1,046,752 258,368 32.77%
Other 11,467,016 10,481,274 10,481,274 9,965,029 (516,245) -4.93%
Transfer In 11,300,627 17,377,339 17,877,339 19,525,786 2,148,447 12.36%
Revenue $437,379,293 $453,924,440 $469,424,440 $459,488,200 $ 5,563,760 1.23%

Salaries & Benefits 67,789,897 73,129,408 73,129,408 77,838,694 4,709,286 6.44%
Gen Operating & Maintenance 171,105,186 189,705,088 189,599,599 195,233,117 5,528,029 2.91%
Capital Accts 7,315 - - - - 0.00%
Debt Service Accts 3,100,319 2,201,813 2,307,302 1,767,314 (434,499) -19.73%
Transfer Out & Other 185,708,018 188,888,131 204,388,131 184,649,075 (4,239,056) -2.24%
Expenses $427,710,734 $453,924,440 $469,424,440 $459,488,200 $ 5,563,760 1.23%

FTE 965.30 986.18 20.88 2.16%

AP 969.00 990.00 21.00 2.17%

FUND PURPOSE AND GOALS

The Water and Sewer Fund is an Enterprise Fund responsible for providing water, wastewater and reclaimed water
services to residential, commercial, industrial, irrigation, and wholesale customers. The City of Fort Worth Water
Department (the Utility) serves approximately 1.3 million people in Fort Worth and 30 surrounding communities.
Operations are financed through a rate structure based on the amount of services used, which is billed to
customers on a monthly basis. Debt is issued for large capital projects.

The Water and Sewer Fund provides resources for three separate departments: water, sewer and reclaimed
water. These services are billed separately to more accurately capture the cost of each service. However, the
Water and Sewer Departments share administrative staff, and many of the employees are partially expensed to
more than one department.

The Water Department is responsible for providing safe, clean drinking water to Fort Worth residents and
customer cities. The Sewer Department collects, monitors, treats and processes domestic and industrial
waterborne waste from Fort Worth and other contracting communities. The Reclaimed Water Department
provides highly treated effluent from Fort Worth’s water reclamation facility. Reclaimed water is distributed
through a separate system to wholesale and retail reclaimed water customers for non-potable uses such as
irrigation and industrial water cooling towers.

The Utility’s Customer Care Division performs metering services as well as billing and collection functions for
water, sewer, reclaimed water, wholesale, stormwater, environmental, and solid waste services; processes orders
for new services; collects delinquent payments; and investigates complaints. The division also manages programs
to encourage efficient water use, provides educational programming to the public, and is responsible for internal

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