$7,582 was spent on water utilities department support by the City of Dallas in May, according to Dallas Open Data.

The money was used to pay seven vendors.

Funding came from the Water Utilities department.

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The City spent $1,038 the month before.

The city budget from October 2020 to September 2021 raised property taxes by 5.1 percent, bringing in an additional $27 million through taxes. There was more than $3.8 billion allocated to the budget.

The budget has grown by roughly $1 billion in the last decade.

City of Dallas services in May
Service Cost in May Cost in April
24-hour radio broadcasts $16,010.83 $44,299.09
911 technology and education services $170,102.57 $197,339.16
A City forester $12,516.16 $1,968
A Dallas police mounted unit $28,534.23 $46,090.74
A day resource center $32,891.8 $3,110
Accounting and financial reporting $1,761.79 $1,157.95
Accounts payable $11,630.7 $19,488.23
Admin duties $2,943.23
Administration support for Mayor and City Council $7,677.63 $3,639.18
AIDS services $27,250.75 $18,646.17
Airfield security and badging $182,425.62 $41,619.53
Airport electronic systems management $125,190.93 $6,228.27
Airport improvements $914,322.83 $901,258.98
Alley reconstruction $206,453.36 $296,384.84
Applicant processing for uniformed employees $5,060 $3,765
Aquatic facilities $40,138.9 $878,671.62
Assessment of the City’s fleet $241.5 $728,126.1
Athletic facilities improvements $280 $18,099
Attorney support for City departments $18,028.65 $20,143.06
Audits $20,476.53
Automatic vehicle inspections $890,529.03 $744,562.26
AVI administration $9,565.81 $18,429.71
Boards and commissions support $3,531
Bond program management $280,340.5 $299,759.55
Bridge repairs and modifications $541,451.73
Budget, cash and debt management $160.96
Business development $23,145 $12,765.3
Business services $135,055.49 $74,487.14
Capital improvements – planning $1,910.91 $391.22
Carry-over encumbrance $52,147.97 $42,682.07
Central Library $333,201.16 $516,793.52
Child care services $13,025 $39,510
City attorney litigation services $670.77 $4,703.99
City facility operations, maintenance and repairs $6,544,607.38 $2,879,593.05
City fleet maintenance and repair services $304,287.23 $720,445.98
City Hall $62,177.23 $830,850.76
City sponsored self-funded health care plans $56,054.2 $98,028.17
City technology $2,620,736.81 $9,408,350.23
Claims for injuries and damages to personal property $77,970.15 $135,045.76
Climate change and ozone reduction $120.63 $4,028.58
Code compliance, safety and security $15,009.88 $156,989.48
Code compliant for City departments $10,128.65 $23,170.18
Collecting and disposing refuse from City facilities $17,248.52 $62,906.08
Collections from Dallas public improvement districts (PID) $2,092,045.23 $821,970.31
Community centers programs, marketing and events $32,820.26 $54,389.52
Community centers property management & administration $98,712.68 $109,511.58
Community parks $15,522.17 $25,032.18
Community prosecution and court services $100,385.28 $199,615.43
Community recreation centers $123,342.15 $209,407.71
Community swimming pools and neighborhood aquatic centers $11,336.94 $2,758.98
Compensation reviews and decisions $1,098.8 $2,376
Complete streets initiatives $119,502.42 $132,483.14
Compliance assistance and assessment $5,003.65 $815.16
Comprehensive homeless outreach $1,901,943.41 $2,270,253.64
Computerizing and optimizing traffic signals $13,153.2 $125,860.22
Consolidated plans $4,770.99 $1,335.82
Contract management for Dallas police $21,548.12 $9,017.79
Contracts and grants administration $2,562.1
Crime analysis $570.88 $4,790.99
Criminal intelligence and protective services $263.41 $1,116.75
CS board appeals $232.41 $208.3
Cultural centers in four Dallas neighborhoods $20,930 $6,964.99
Cultural facilities $1,543,900.29 $2,750,985.22
Cultural programs funding $416,366 $676,834
Cultural tourism development and marketing $1,475 $6,550
Custodial maintenance $18,871.97 $229,870.55
Dallas animal services $77,221.24 $201,065.27
Dallas art programs $22,303.12 $183.48
Dallas County Appraisal District $75,930.5
Dallas Detention Centre $1,066.36 $3,542.58
Dallas Executive Airport $38,835.58 $59,475.99
Dallas libraries $156,611.86 $487,388.03
Dallas Water Utilities customer accounts $57,348.16 $755,058.31
Data analytics & business intelligence $1,066.41 $6,832
Department management $60,507.57 $1,104,450.83
Department support for convention centre services $34,520.46 $4,420.94
Department support for police $24,447.53 $25,652.43
Department support for street services $220
Design and inspection of district engineering $31,854.25
Development department support $154,794.44 $258,144.25
Disposing of unclaimed property $21,845.89 $58,043.97
Distributing uniforms and equipment $11.55 $21,388.1
Downtown park development $1,504,051.24 $611,321.33
Economic area redevelopment $12.12 $57.78
Economic development and neighborhood revitalization $277.18 $186,826.12
Electrical $29,630.15 $7,517.91
Emergency calls for traffic sign maintenance $4,693.11 $5,044.47
Emergency management operations $1,519,208.32 $1,920,985.93
Emergency medical services $4,894.2 $237,045.2
Emergency relief purchases $411,992 $1,979,197.04
Engineering reviews for private development $1,588.8 $400
Environmental $50,051.58 $47,390.05
Environmental management system and environmental compliance $277.07 $12,778.14
Environmental outreach $39,580.1 $46,499.34
Environmental services for fleet operations $62,555.92 $200,407.85
Equipment services department support $8,290.01 $681,844.77
Equity analysis and support $158.19 $411.95
Erosion control $151,302.36 $4,896
Fabricating traffic signs $437.1 $49,802.67
Facilities services $88,163.12 $107,160.73
Facilities systems $20,711.7 $163.62
Fair housing & human rights initiatives $65.52 $184,504.9
Fair Park development $1,001,855.02 $525,865.76
Field inspections of private development construction sites $24,671.32 $27,310.02
Field maintenance $155,205.67 $709,340.99
Financial services reports $34.99
Fire and arson investigations $629.81 $155.14
Fire and rescue emergency response $15,831.78 $882,489.57
Fire and rescue equipment maintenance $185,838.25 $338,741.54
Fire and rescue training $9,075.08 $1,463.01
Fire dispatch $33,708.11 $32,751
Fire prevention, education and inspection $477.8
Fire protection facilities $1,378,982.98 $1,296,914.26
Fleet replacement $2,313,345.43 $818,495.82
Fleet replacement $1,396,544 $617,697.4
Flood management $590,112.3 $580.65
Food protection and education $5,666.62 $7,983.02
Fuel procurement and management $89,537.42 $30,971.28
FUSION Centre police service $12,066.17 $36,449.12
General counsel services $48
Golf and tennis centres $84,656.02 $30,444.66
Ground transportation $164,404.64 $2,478.83
Hiking and biking trails $319,835.22 $404,480.5
Home repair loan programs $4,680
Home repair or replacement program support $119,219.68 $261,924.36
Homeless housing services $287,311.24 $344,294.76
Homeless services administration $22,815
Housing department support $30,746 $123,477.13
Housing services programs $383,754.61 $104,624.91
HR consulting within City Hall $16,380.9 $2,175.32
Implementing Department of Public Works capital programs $77,667.24
Incentives for more electric vehicle charging stations $70.2 $3,074.12
Infrastructure support $41,346 $236,478.15
Ino general $3,463.1
Intergovernmental legislative affairs and fund development $80,861.77 $441,445.79
Intergovernmental partnership projects $742,087.41 $349,178.25
Internal affairs within the Dallas police department $28,949.93 $8,789.64
Internal application services $562,244.07 $1,151,083.61
Internal computer support $61,702.4 $99,120.04
Internal desktop support $196,237.11 $4,353,121.27
Internal radio communications $56,833.7 $113,050.87
Inventory $2,394,654.76 $2,387,913.64
Inventory management of traffic operations $254.74 $251.5
Investigations in illegal dumping $542.93 $500
Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Centre $119,705.69 $360,123.35
Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Centre improvements $104,573.54 $520,748.19
Landfill management $342,451.87 $463,795.64
Landside operations $604.1 $2,435.5
Legal research services and processing for Dallas police $2,022.09 $5,285.43
Legislative affairs $30,862.13 $34,166.66
Library facilities $1,654,918.01 $1,965,326.87
Love Field law enforcement security $3,465.96 $5,574.44
Love Field operations $2,919.85 $717.61
Love Field security $69.3 $139
Mains, pump stations and associated facilities $5,266,821.5 $8,877,672.19
Maintaining park land $589,894.15 $241,376.87
Major maintenance $137,149.11 $416,907.8
Management for the demolition of structures $32,045.59 $44,277.32
Management of police headquarters $164,963.19 $102,012.48
Managing and promoting Fair Park $399,794.07 $3,775,000
Managing athletic field rentals and reservations $2,684.31 $383.21
Managing Dallas’ operating budget $1,279.69
Managing voluntary benefits for staff $757,401.42 $1,920,687.05
Mechanical $22,509.58 $8,819.97
Miscellaneous items $126,044.57 $433,988.08
Monitoring pollution in ambient Dallas air $23,556.07 $1,619.84
Mortgage support for City council $2,954.82 $1,920
Multi-tenant code inspection programs $2,695.09 $3,975.58
Municipal court services $597,971.34 $760,627.17
Municipal judges and cases docketed $38,962.47 $7,199.25
Neighborhood code compliance services $47,513.02 $99,483.33
Neighborhood nuisance abatement $24,330.96 $47,822.85
Neighborhood revitalization initiatives $49,447.5 $227,896.63
Non-departmental support $257,628.33 $429,814.55
OEQ department support $118.41 $236.82
Oversight of street cut permits and right of way construction $16,145.41 $2,598.75
Park land acquisition $5,023,912.2 $16,010.96
Parking enforcement $136,359.25 $101,597.05
Parks and recreation youth programs $10,406.11 $119,891.22
Participation with other government agencies about thoroughfares $351,568.09 $1,035,377.22
Parts management for City fleets $11,849.18 $2,780.59
Pavement maintenance and construction $31,810.39 $78,591.6
Pavement markings $2,361.15 $123.96
Payroll $1,101.6 $409
Performance planning $116.02
Petitions and assessments of alleys and sidewalks $73,494.75 $226,119
Planning, design and construction $2,626.5 $253.18
Playground improvements $60,593.43 $30,857.79
Plumbing $6,487.12 $7,533.82
Police communication and dispatch $125,278.13 $58,162.72
Police department facilities $1,366,170.12 $318,037.85
Police helicopters $14,836.59 $25,033.05
Police invesigations into crimes against persons $11,615.25 $1,151,510.68
Police investigation of property crimes $5,144.34 $11,160.26
Police investigation of vice-related crime $249.29 $432.61
Police investigations of narcotics-related crimes $29,872.4 $7,380.91
Police investigations of youth and family crimes $26,875.46 $23,379.05
Police officer oversight $30,236.78 $40
Police patrols $70,024.83 $112,963.78
Police prisoner processing at the county jail $507.37 $1,600.75
Police Safe operations $4,048.59
Police traffic enforcement and investigations $1,683.48 $3,171.79
Public art $15,037.5 $3,500
Public/private partnerships $97,472.54 $22,647.06
Pumping raw water $509,434.51 $326,234.85
Real estate $241.44 $241.26
Real estate for private development $5,171.93 $2,849.92
Reconciliations $184,250
Records management $18,216.71 $14,666.81
Recovery of evidence for police investigations $27,675.35 $17,162.52
Recreation centers $45,145.52 $175,684.34
Recruiting police $26,076.76 $48,229.11
Recycling residential solid waste $55,077.44 $43,293.67
Red light cameras $3,472 $106,004.83
Regulatory compliance $1,800.29 $2,501.46
Regulatory compliance from HR $3,722.5 $5,277.5
Rehabilitation and equipment $7,644 $1,227,695.17
Relocating property $575,025.45 $866,523.84
Relocations in advance of paving $972,965.61 $1,129,853.74
Repairing asphalt $544.18 $2,443.38
Repairing concrete $339,401.07 $326,274.89
Residential brush collection $54,019.86 $85,781.24
Residential garbage collection $360,296.95 $588,768.03
Reviewing and permitting construction plans $18,155 $7,168.8
Right-of-way maintenance contracts $255,389.26 $325,666.86
Risk management services $211,768.08 $229,052.21
Roof replacement $105,866.12 $863,838.58
Roofing maintenance of City facilities $4,894
Safety and security $196.7
Security services $75,277.86 $131,206.2
Senior transportation services $6,047.81 $17,747.43
Service maintenance centers $32,646.44 $162,714.4
Sidewalk improvements $47,381.25 $208,229.49
Signal construction operations $985.28 $14,115.5
Signal maintenance operations and emergency response $96,572.5 $782.15
Site improvements for recreation facilities $344,952.93 $658,295.89
Solid waste transfer stations $31,840.34 $35,917.1
Special collections $11,760.3 $21,845.16
Special use areas $31,550
Storm drainage relief systems $6,642,299.52 $359,537.5
Storm water drainage management $1,514,186.55 $1,204,593.69
Stormwater management $18,116.77 $19,436.3
Strategic technology management $305,018.77 $101,990.45
Street lighting $731,726.56 $1,636,445.25
Street maintenance contracts $3,994,047.81 $3,399,226.02
Street reconstruction $1,797,894.18 $1,700,134.09
Street resurfacing $570,963.48 $18,778.99
Studies and master plans $41,424.63 $398,225.48
Subdivision plat reviews $1,502.6 $1,356
Supplemental nutrition programs for women, infants, and child $205,927.1 $265,681
Support for the Communities in Schools program $318 $154
Support for the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden $34,028.79 -$33,750
Support for the parks and recreation department $8,550 $21,144.34
Survey services for private development $80 $40
Surveys through the Public Works Capital Program $4,680
Tactical police operations $74,305.02 $23,733.29
Targetting neighborhoods for tax increment financing $9,906.88 $36,186.38
Tenant maintenance $73,288.05 $69,756.98
Terminal maintenance $1,015.74 $443.32
The 311 customer service center $220 $4,349.24
The airport communication center $26,101.2 $201.05
The Bachman Recreation Centre $1,595.91 $173.05
The Black Academy of Arts and Letters $14,700 $10,149.05
The bond program management of PKR construction $30,734.82 $39,633.46
The city controller’s office $50.31
The City fleet body shop $54,713.63 $125,936.05
The civilian community affairs unit within Dallas police $580.26 $1,048.37
The Dallas Floodway project $487.22 $477.07
The Dallas floodway recovery plans $3,441.04 $9,813.74
The Dallas Zoo and Aquarium $167,986 $325,765.5
The Downtown Connection tax increment financing (TIF) district $12,290.33
The internal voice and data communication network $1,521,721.36 $1,085,321.12
The Maple/Mockingbird tax increment financing (TIF) district $10,467.44
The office of equity $14,045.24 $552,990.01
The Office of Welcoming Communitites & Immigrant Affairs $4,995 $942,461.71
The police academy and training $122,014.61 $151,333
The police auto pound $73,004.97 $17,094.67
The price of doing business calculations within the Dallas Water Utility $95,614.25 $26,570
The public information office $32,093.88 $363,690.21
The South Dallas/Fair Park trust fund grant $11,149.09
The west Dallas Multipurpose Center $1,010
Thoroughfares $202,349.95 $1,260,457.12
Traffic signal design and construction $41,807.25
Transportation administration $13,001.96 $3,740.72
Transportation planning $7,652.64 $3,300
Union Station $17,392
Urban forestry $705
Utilities $29,761.52 $15,085.52
Utilities management $190.24
Utility payments of City facilities $146,540.44 $102,916.27
Vital statistics $1,315.77 $26,443.03
Waste diversion $382,221.42 $708,441.03
Wastewater collection system maintenance $109,700.93 $209,871.89
Wastewater treatment $1,669,342.6 $1,922,008.27
Wastewater treatment plants and associated facilities $2,119,251.27 $1,542,147.75
Water meter operations $4,312.01 $5,376.64
Water planning, financial and rate services $24,330.94 $20,137.6
Water treatment $2,819,379.43 $4,167,193.23
Water treatment plants and associated facilities $2,375,016.68 $5,376,229.73
Water utilities capital program management $75,910.43 $78,876.17
Water utilities department support $7,582.35 $1,037.96
Water utilities pretreatment and lab services $644.09 $940.22
Waterproof jackets $1,583.33 $2,880.8
Wholesale customer facilities $20,474.17
Zoning $6,181.6 $10,373.9

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