Paid for by taxpayers…

for fiscal year 2017

Amount: $612,421,165
To: Total of all city funds to be expended in 2017
For: Budget for fiscal year 2017

Amount: $61,003,604
To: Police department
38 percent of total city budget

Amount: $36,102,992
To: Fire department
23 percent of total city budget

Amount: $12,298,569
To: Park & Recreation
8 percent of total city budget

Amount: $9,816,860
To: Finance
6 percent of total city budget

Amount: $8,841,980
To: Engineering department
6 percent of total city budget

Amount: $7,023,035
To: Library
4 percent of total city budget

Amount: $6,419,878
To: City Manager’s Department
4 percent of total city budget

Amount: $5,752,392
To: Community Development
4 percent of total city budget

Amount: $5,685,155
To: Information Technology
4 percent of total city budget

Amount: $1,911,435
To: Legal
1 percent of total city budget

Amount: $1,680,493
To: Human Resources
1 percent of total city budget

Amount: $829,502
To: City Clerk
1 percent of total city budget

Amount: $772,031
To: Public Works
1 percent of total city budget

Amount: $434,995
To: Mayor & Council
1 percent of total city budget

Amount: $400,844
To: Civil and Human Rights
1 percent of total city budget

Amount: $293,608
To: School crossing guards
1 percent of total city budget

Salaries and such

Name: Thomas Nelson Brands II
Title: Head wrestling coach
Department: University of Iowa
Annual Salary: $368,091.96

Travel

The Des Moines City Council approved travel funding in the amount of $4,573 for Crime Scene Investigator Makenzie Patterson to visit Evanston, Illinois, April 17-30. Patterson is to attend the Crime Scene Technology II and III courses being held at Northwestern University’s Center for Public Safety. The courses will provide an understanding of crime scene processing and investigation. Courses will provide instruction in many areas but include photographic evidence, bloodstain documentation, practical field reconstruction, construction of a three dimensional diagram, forensic light source evidence, latent fingerprint development and enhancement, and professional courtroom presentation and testimony. CV