Colorado's Comprehensive Annual Reporting System

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The object of this essay is to teach you to be an informed citizen and taxpayer. We will examine just how to go through your local city, municipal, county, school district, and state government’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) and come out the other side with millions if not billions of wealth and investments hidden by your government. I was inspired to write this due to the several requests for myself to help others research and pinpoint their own government’s corruption and hidden wealth. So here, now, I present to you the CAFR for the city of Aurora, Colorado, a municipal corporation… First, understand that this report is basically the standard set-up and protocol for the structure of the Annual Reporting system. Therefore,…show more content…
it would be necessary to add all of these up to get a total look at the wealth of any county or state. Also, the school districts and other districts (water, sewer, etc.) will each have a seperate CAFR, as they are also not part of the city government (as listed on the CAFR). That said, I am going to refer to pages on the CAFR report (no particular order, sorry). Remember, we are looking for wealth that could be used for more important things as well as wealth that is not being used for anything at all except capital gains. You should follow along with me using the Aurora City Comprehensive Annual Financial Report as your reference, which can be downloaded here: https://www.auroragov.org/AuroraGov/Departments/Finance/Annual_Financial_Report/index.htm?ssSourceNodeId=934&ssSourceSiteId=621… And if you like, you can follow along with your local or county CAFR as well, making the adjustments for size and page numbers as you go. Your CAFR should be virtually identical in its structure to this one. If it is not, the key points we are about to cover will be in there…show more content…
Also, this fund has grown steadilly for the last 5 years, from $305 million in 2005, to over $430 million in 2009. Again, the CAFR is the cumulative look at government wealth and investment income. The taxpayer budget released to the people is not. Net Assets in the “Waste Water Fund” as of December 31, 2009 - $430,862,335 Page 137 – 143 – “Water Fund” This is the drinking water fund. Similarly with the other funds, this is money that could be used for other purposes. In this case, we start to see the vast wealth the city is hiding within these funds… Page 137 – Changes in Net Assets for Water Fund – NET ASSETS – DECEMBER 2009 - show total monies for this fund at $944,082,042 – That’s almost $1 billion dollars for just this fund alone!!! Again, this fund is investing the money, and shows investment income (return on investments) of over $11 million. Net assets increased over 2008 totals by $62,555,533 (INCREASE IN NET ASSETS = Profit). And since December 31, 2005, this fund has grown by over $322 million

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