Bastrop — the money trail

The City of Bastrop (the county seat) — a separate government from Bastrop County. The bars are the city's General Fund ($18.6M). Police is the largest single department at about a third of it; Police and Fire together are about 43%. Each amount links to the exact page of the adopted budget where it appears. Bastrop also runs its own electric utility (Bastrop Power & Light, $9.5M) and a Water & Wastewater fund ($10.0M) as self-supporting enterprises. One honest note on the arithmetic: the department pages sum to a little less than the $18.6M General-Fund total, because the city books some fund-wide costs (internal-service charges, and a non-departmental overhead-allocation credit) outside the individual departments. That remainder is shown as its own line so the tree still adds up to the dollar; the city's by-category view of the same fund (wages, benefits, supplies, and so on, pp. 41-44) foots to $18,608,924 exactly. Click any number to open the source. The pieces add up to the General Fund total exactly.