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therefore, your rates have to be designed to replace those things. Right now we actually have a small cash flow problem with water and sewer. Page 32 essentially shows the last page of the budget comparison for all your governmental fund types, and Mr. Landorf wanted to point out that generally the County was spending in accordance with the budget and there were no significant budget problems for that year. Commissioner Wodtke had a question on Page 32. He wished to know if we actually budgeted a deficit, and Mr. Landorf confirmed we did. He explained if the county had accomplished spending all the money that was originally in the budget, we would have budgeted a deficit of about 2.2 million, and this gets back to what the Chairman was indicating as a budgetary trend. The County, however, ended up not going that deep into its reserves as a result of collecting more than had been budgeted and spending some 2 million less than anticipated. Chairman Scurlock felt the point is that this will catch up with us, and the Administrator stated that it already has. Com. Wodtke was concerned about the games -that are played with cash carry forward which we don't ever get a chance to look at in this kind of report, and the Chairman pointed out that if we can't invade those funds again, it means we have to look to ad valorem taxes or other revenue sources, which is why we were pointing out additional options for additional revenue this coming year. Mr. #Landorf noted that you also have the federal revenue crunch and agreed it is important to maintain those reserves if at all possible because the alternative is pure taxes. Page 101 Mr. Landorf pointed out on debt service funds, we did refund the 1980-81 bonds; so those, in essence, will wash out during this year, and there is a new bond issue coming on. Re water and sewer, there is no major concern, but the county did have to use some of its cash this year as compared to the 1983 35 AFr%R 9 1986 BOOK