CRF: Dispatch Center
Property taxes · General Fund · 6-year horizonEvery figure the reserves table quotes for this fund, derived again here line by line. The bar in a public meeting is not trust-the-software; it is check line four.
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The answer
Holding today's deposit of $33,800 flat, this fund goes negative in FY2032. Closing the gap takes $8,675 a year more — or, with less price shock, a deposit that grows by $2,892 each year.
One recurrence, applied 6 times: balance = balance × (1 + 0.0%) + deposit − draws. Deposits are today’s figure, held flat. No solver and no goal-seek — the answers below are closed-form, so the same inputs always give the same figures.
Balance, both ways
negatives are shown, never floored — a fund going under is the findingThe roll-forward, line by line
every draw names its projects| Year | Deposit | Draws | Drawn by | Balance | Step-up deposit | Balance, stepped |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening | available, net of commitments, as of 31 Oct 2025 | $233,126 | $233,126 | |||
| FY2028 | $33,800 | $48,500 | Digital Alarm Monitor $48,500 | $218,426 | $36,692 | $221,318 |
| FY2029 | $33,800 | $55,000 | Video System $55,000 | $197,226 | $39,583 | $205,901 |
| FY2030 | $33,800 | — | $231,026 | $42,475 | $248,376 | |
| FY2031 | $33,800 | $225,000 | Radio Console $225,000 | $39,826 | $45,366 | $68,742 |
| FY2032 | $33,800 | $117,000 | Police simulcast radio system $117,000 | -$43,374 | $48,258 | $0 |
| FY2033 | $33,800 | — | -$9,574 | $51,150 | $51,150 |
Where the two answers come from
the same arithmetic, checkable on paperThe flat answer. The binding year is FY2032 — the year whose cumulative draws are hardest to cover. Through it:
| Draws, FY2028–FY2032 | $445,500 |
| less the opening balance | − $233,126 |
| less the deposits already planned | − $169,000 |
| Uncovered | $43,374 |
| spread over 5 equal annual additions | $8,675 / yr |
The gradual answer — the one with less price shock.Instead of the same amount every year, the addition grows: $2,892 in year one, $5,783 in year two, and so on. A deposit rising in year t contributes t steps by year T, so the divisor is 1 + 2 + … + 5 = 15rather than 5:
| Uncovered through the binding year FY2032 | $43,374 |
| divided by the triangle number 15 | $2,892 more each year |
This is the recommendation the budget request prints: a gradual annual adjustment so that no year goes negative and there is less price shock. The Town raises a contribution once — it does not reset one. As projects shift, are removed, or reprice, both answers recompute; they cannot go stale.
What is lingering just outside the window
this is what drives the contribution| Year | Asset | Draw |
|---|---|---|
| FY2036 | Dispatch furniture | $135,000 |
| FY2036 | Hayes Hill Generator | $25,000 |
| FY2037 | Logger recorder | $23,500 |
| FY2038 | Town Hall/Hayes/PD Antenna | $375,000 |
| FY2043 | Fire A & B Repeater | $504,000 |
| FY2043 | Dispatch Ctr Renovations | $200,000 |