Finance Overview
OBJECTIVE:
The Finance Department is responsible for the overall financial administration of the City and the San Bruno Redevelopment Agency.
DUTIES:
The Finance Department duties includes providing for operation of the general accounting system, payroll processing, purchasing for all City departments, collection of revenues, and other miscellaneous charges. Further details of these roles and duties can be found at Finance Services.
ACCOUNTING METHOD:
The City's finances, like most government entities, are segregated into funds utilizing fund accounting. Fund accounting allows for a complete and accurate accounting of funds with different uses, ensuring each fund is self-supporting. Property and sales tax revenues support, in part, what is known as the General Fund. The General Fund is responsible for providing services to the whole community such as police, fire, street and park maintenance, library, planning, building, and recreation services. In addition to the General Fund, the Department manages the use of restricted funds establishing a distinct fund for each revenue such as water service charges and wastewater (sewer) charges. Over the past two decades, the City's finances have grown increasingly complex with the creation of a Redevelopment Agency, growth of the Cable Television system, and a number of Federal and State funded grants utilized to augment services or improve infrastructure within our community.
ACCOUNTING PERSONNEL:
The Department is headed by Edmund Suen, Finance Director, and has 10 additional budgeted full-time positions with five assigned to general accounting services and six assigned to the utility billing & business license services of the Department.
