Governmental Operating / Special Revenue (100-299)
250 Special Revenue — Public Safety Programs (template)
Special revenue fundsSince 2026.03
Cities FTR
37:SPECIAL_REVENUE
The fund category decides the form and column. See how the FTR is built.
- What it is
- Restricted revenue for police, fire, and emergency services.
- Accounting standard
- Governmental funds follow the modified accrual basis and focus on current financial resources. Special revenue funds are used when legally restricted or committed revenues are required to be accounted for separately.
- Accounting note
- Maintain fund authorization, legal restrictions, and budgetary schedules. Grants and impact fees should include project/restriction tracking via local subfunds. Local subfund expansion is permitted (recommended as a 4th digit) to create program/project detail while maintaining the 3-digit base fund rollup.
- Reporting note
- Maps to FTR governmental fund reporting. Use local expansion (4th digit) to create program-level subfunds without breaking rollups. Local expansion rule: Optional local expansion: append 4th digit (###D). Universal parent is first 3 digits.
- Examples
- Proposition 172 public safety sales tax; supplemental law enforcement (COPS) money.
- Do not use for
- General fund public safety spending (100).
Local expansion
Optional local expansion: append 4th digit (###D). Universal parent is first 3 digits.