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The Enterprise Fund

The Enterprise Fund was officially formed in the 1993-1994 time frame. I presume the purpose was to isolate revenues from fees for water/sewage and the Loring Arena, from general purpose tax revenue. An examination of its revenues and balances shows that by 1998, its burgeoning surplus had to be redirected into even newer Capital Projects funds.  This is an accounting trick to sort of hide growing surpluses by redirecting it to another fund and start all sorts of new spending projects. The details page shows all the gruesome financial information that you'd want to know about the fund. The table and graphs below gives you a visual perspective of the various enterprises.

Enterprise Fund Expenses (1000s)
Year	Total Sewer Expenses	MWRA Sewer Expenses	Total Water Expenses	MWRA Water Expenses	Total Arena Expenses	Total Enterprise Fund Expenses
1994	9084.5	6813.4	4067.6	1952.4	317.8	13469.9
1995	9289.0	6966.8	4491.9	2156.1	312.5	14093.4
1996	8888.5	6666.4	4538.6	2178.5	469.6	13896.7
1997	9734.9	7314.4	5002.3	2364.7	329.7	15066.9
1998	11097.3	7548.5	6875.3	2630.9	328.0	18300.6
1999	10506.0	7656.1	6328.3	2805.8	342.9	17177.2
2000	10666.2	7699.6	6074.9	3106.9	464.0	17205.1
2001	11141.1	7730.3	6558.9	3704.1	479.4	18179.4
2002	10080.0	7601.4	7181.3	4055.4	489.2	17750.5
2003	10582.2	7596.7	7665.9	4330.7	487.8	18735.9
2004	11651.6	7916.7	8748.7	4658.4	514.9	20915.2
2005	13067.2	8241.4	10524.6	4972.9	559.9	24151.7
2006	11325.8	7969.9	10324.7	6012.2	487.1	22047.6
2007
2008	14901.7	8690.8	13582.9	6190.4
2009	16160.7	8846.2	14072.6	6546.7
2010	16104.2	9517.5	13720.2	6553.4
2011	17188.7	9983.7	14548.8	6489.1
2012

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