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Sewer fund — Ongoing Cost Analysis

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What does the recurring operating burden look like once capital one-offs are reserve-funded and bulk pre-purchases are amortized? Each panel shows the rate-of-spend (90-day smoothed) for one account, with the dashed monthly budget reference set to Karen's FY 26-27 draft — i.e., what she expects steady-state to be after seeing FY 25-26 actuals. Compare to the cash-basis FY 25-26 actual spend tracker for what literally hit QB.

Three analytical adjustments are applied here that are NOT applied on the "What was spent" tracker:

  • Reclassifications— capital-class items moved to the virtual Repair Reserve so the recurring R&M and Supplies trends aren't distorted by equipment refurbishments.
  • Amortizations— bulk pre-purchases (e.g., the H2O onboarding USABlueBook order or the M&T air-filter buy) spread across the months they'll actually be consumed.
  • Exclusions — rare, currently unused.
FY 26-27 budget (combined)
$97,144
5 expense accounts
Recurring spend (FY 25-26 to date)
$156,505
161% of FY 26-27 budget consumed in <1 year
Reclassified to Repair Reserve
$15,669
4 capital-class items →

ES8130.43 WWTP Sludge Removal

$53,484 recurring · budget $20,176

Hauler bills for sludge removal. FY 26-27 draft uses Frances Uku's analytical baseline of $20,176/yr (26 hauls × 4kgal × $194/kgal).

ES8130.45 Septic Tank Pumping

$19,008 recurring · budget $20,400

On-property septic tank pumping. FY 26-27 draft at $20,400/yr based on actual rate ($1,700/mo).

ES8120.1 Sanitary Sewer - Per Srv (payroll)

$49,218 recurring · budget $28,568

Bi-weekly sewer-fund payroll allocation. FY 26-27 draft reduced to $28,568/yr.

ES8120.42 Repairs & Maintenance

$18,854 recurring · budget $20,000

Hardware, parts, contractor labor. FY 26-27 draft doubled to $20,000/yr — but excludes capital-class items now in Repair Reserve.

cash-basis QB total: $31,234 (delta $12,380 reclassified or amortized)

ES8120.44 Supplies

$15,941 recurring · budget $8,000

Recurring consumables (chemicals, PPE, lab kit). FY 26-27 draft at $8,000/yr based on Karen's itemized list (12/9/25).

cash-basis QB total: $19,231 (delta $3,289 reclassified or amortized)

virtual Repair Reserve

$15,669 reclassified

Capital-class equipment + one-off installations booked to operating accounts. The Sewer Fund has no Repair Reserve to fund these from.

  • 08-05J Andrew Lange Inc— equipment_install$829
  • 08-11Ferguson Waterworks #1672— capital_equipment_replacement$729
  • 08-28J Andrew Lange Inc— equipment_install$1,732
  • 12-10Water Services Inc— capital_equipment_rebuild$12,380

from repairs_maint ($12,380), supplies ($3,289)

Why two views. The cash-basis tracker answers did the village stay in the FY 25-26 budget — the answer is no, materially. This page answers a different question: at what rate is the sewer fund actually consuming operating dollars when you strip out the timing artifacts and capital-class one-offs? Karen's FY 26-27 draft is the right yardstick because it's her own steady-state forecast after seeing this year.

Per-event detail pagesshow both perspectives via the badges in the events table — "reclassified", "amortized", and so on — so you can drill into any single transaction's treatment.