Number
"Fun"ds
HB-who?
Budget
Abbrev.
History
Mystery
Tools of the (Budget) Trade
200

Debt Service Fund

What is 130?

200

Budget


What is the General Fund?

200

PUB

What is the Public Utilities Board?

200

Moore Business Forms was founded in 1882 and became the largest manufacturer of business forms and machines in the world. The company moved to Denton in 1947 and upon closing in 1987, the City of Denton purchased their building and converted it into this building, where the police, tech services, and HR departments now reside.

What is City Hall East?

200

The Renaissance saw the invention of this device by Wilhelm Schickard in 1623. In 1957, the Casio company created an electronic version.

What is a calculator?

400

Water Fund

What is 630?

400

Real Estate

What is the Engineering Fund?

400

HOT

What is Hotel Occupancy Tax?

400

On July 1, 2018, the City of Denton began commercial operation of this building, a natural gas plant with quick-start reciprocating engines that can be called upon when needed.  

What is the Denton Energy Center?

400

The first version of this software was released in 1985 for Apple's Macintosh computer. Featuring strong graphics and fast processing, the new application quickly became popular. 

What is Excel?

600

Risk Fund

What is 860?

600

Power Supply Administration

What is the Electric Fund?

600

FTE

What is Full-Time Equivalent?

600

With 6,000 people in attendance, this department's new building was dedicated in 1965 and featured an air show.

What is the Airport?

600

The first patent on this writing device was issued on October 30, 1888, to John J Loud.

What is a ballpoint pen?

800

 Facilities Management

What is 880?

800

Fire Department Technology

What is the Technology Services Fund?

800

KDB

What is Keep Denton Beautiful?

800

DAILY DOUBLE

The City constructed Power Plant #2 in 1947 and abandoned it in the 1970s. The empty building shell remained unoccupied until renovated in 2003, when it became the central HQ of this department.

800

Designed in 1971, before microprocessors were invented, the Kenbak-1 was the first of these now common devices. It had 256 bytes of memory and featured small and medium scale integrated circuits on a single circuit board.

What is a computer?

1000

Landfill Closure/Post Closure

What is 662?

1000

Industrial Pretreatment

What is the Wastewater Fund?

1000

FERC

What is Federal Energy Regulatory Commission?

1000

Completed in 1927, this building is a City of Denton Historic Landmark that last housed City offices in 2016. Because the city’s fire department was also housed within the building, a bell tower was included in the design.

What is City Hall West?

1000

Budgets were invented in the Industrial Age as an efficiency management tool. “Budget” is derived from the Latin word “Bulga” which means a leather this for carrying food or supplies.

What is a bag?

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