That is, four billion lempiras per annum. In 2008, the city operated on an approved budget of 1.555 billion lempiras (US$82,189,029). They were in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 lempiras. Auditors later found documentation of 29 checks and a total of 29,995,887.62 lempiras. Each department received about 300 million lempiras per annum. The growing productive sub-sector has a gross production value of over 1.9 billion Lempiras annually. Currently, the Honduran government spends 40 million lempiras annually to provide this treatment.