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Message from the City Manager
Dear Arlington Residents:

critical community priorities. Throughout the year, the city’s solid
fiscal management principles helped us to continue to focus on
providing a solid comprehensive budget for 2010.

I am pleased to present the City of Arlington’s Popular Annual
Financial Summary. In this report, we summarize our city’s financial
operations and highlight the service delivery
strategies that helped to shape Arlington
during the fiscal year that ended September
30, 2010. This report is part of our
continuing efforts at open government that
enhance the level of fiscal accountability
with our residents.

Although this report provides a
condensed and simplified analysis of our
revenues and expenses, it is designed
to help you understand how Arlington’s
government works. This report highlights
some of our city’s most significant
accomplishments in 2010 with financial
forecasts and anticipated challenges for
2011 and beyond.

The 2010 budget was presented at a

time of unprecedented financial uncertainty.
The challenges of preparing and submitting
a comprehensive balanced budget
designed to meet community priorities
was a formidable challenge. We looked for
opportunities to restructure and realign our
services, make the ‘right’ investments, seek
part