The purpose of this report is to compare Georgetown to the 18 other most populous cities in Kentucky, excluding Lexington, Louisville and Independence (a statistical outlier) (“the Sample Cities”), in terms of revenues, expenditures, debt, reserves, taxes, and various statistics in a single fiscal year, and to look at this same info for Georgetown over the last 15-25 years. Current figures are predominantly from 2018 Audits and Comprehensive Financial Reports. Averages for the Sample Cities include Georgetown and the 18 other tested cities. City employment numbers span 1993 to 2017 unless otherwise noted. Population, income, household and jobs statistics were obtained from the Kentucky State Data Center, www.census.gov and the Census’ On the Map website. The report also examines important trends in revenues and expenditures and forecasts that data into a future budget outlook.