Based on the fact that the mayor wants the new fund and sanitation activity to be run like a commercial business, the accounting implications are that accrual based accounting will have to be adopted.
The fact that the new fund would make revenue based on monthly fees that are charged to residents for collecting and disposing trash and garbage means that this is an Enterprise fund. This is a kind of fund that collects fees for the government to enable it to provide a service.
Enterprise funds are treated as separate accounting entities from other activities of the government because the funds in them are solely for a certain service that the government should provide. As a result, these funds use accrual based accounting which is what the city would need to start using as opposed to the modified accrual accounting system that it was using.
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