At September 30, 2004, the Trust had an unlimited amount of shares of beneficial interest authorized with a par value of $0.001 per share. The Funds have the ability to issue multiple classes of shares. Each share of a class represents an identical interest in its respective Fund and has the same rights, except that each class bears certain expenses specifically related to the distribution of its shares. Effective April 29, 2004, each Fund renamed Class L shares as Class C shares.
Notes to Financial Statements (unaudited) (continued)
7. Capital Loss Carryforward
On March 31, 2004, the Georgia Portfolio had a net capital loss carryforward of $1,923,000, of which $732,000 expires in 2008, $947,000 expires in 2009 and $244,000 expires in 2012. The Pennsylvania Portfolio had a net capital loss carry-forward of $1,931,000, of which $649,000 expires in 2008, $857,000 expires in 2009, $159,000 expires in 2010 and $266,000 expires in 2012. These amounts will be available to offset like amounts of any future taxable gains.
In addition, the Georgia and Pennsylvania Portfolios had $2,055,441 and $2,000,321 of capital losses realized after October 31, 2003, which were deferred for tax purposes to the first day of the following year.
8. Additional Information
In connection with an investigation previously disclosed by Citigroup, the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has notified Citigroup Asset Management (“CAM”), the Citigroup business unit that includes the funds’ investment manager and other investment advisory companies; Citicorp Trust Bank (“CTB”), an affiliate of CAM; Thomas W. Jones, the former CEO of CAM; and two other individuals, one of whom is an employee and the other of whom is a former employee of CAM, that the SEC Staff is considering recommending a civil injunctive action and/or an administrative proceeding against each of them relating to the creation and operation of an internal transfer agent unit to serve various CAM-managed funds.
In 1999, CTB entered the transfer agent business. CTB hired an unaffiliated subcontractor to perform some of the transfer agent services. The subcontractor, in exchange,had signed a separate agreement with CAM in 1998 that guaranteed investment management revenue to CAM and investment banking revenue to a CAM affiliate. The subcontractor’s business was later taken over by PFPC Inc., and at that time the revenue guarantee was eliminated and a one-time payment was made by the subcontractor to a CAM affiliate.
CAM did not disclose the revenue guarantee when the boards of various CAM-managed funds hired CTB as transfer agent. Nor did CAM disclose to the boards of the various CAM-managed funds the one-time payment received by the CAM affiliate when it was made.
In addition, the SEC Staff has indicated that it is considering recommending action based on the adequacy of the disclosures made to the fund boards that approved the
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Notes to Financial Statements (unaudited) (continued)
transfer agency arrangement, CAM’s initiation and operation of, and compensation for, the transfer agent business and CAM’s retention of, and agreements with, the subcontractor.
Citigroup is cooperating fully in the investigation and will seek to resolve the matter in discussions with the SEC Staff. Although there can be no assurance, Citigroup does not believe that this matter will have a material adverse effect on the Funds. As previously disclosed, CAM has already agreed to pay the applicable funds, primarily through fee waivers, a total of approximately $17 million (plus interest) that is the amount of the revenue received by Citigroup relating to the revenue guarantee.
9. Legal Matters
Class action lawsuits have been filed against Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (the “Distributor”) and a number of its affiliates, including Smith Barney Fund Management LLC and Salomon Brothers Asset Management Inc (the “Advisers”), substantially all of the mutual funds managed by the Advisers (the “Funds”), and directors or trustees of the Funds.The complaints allege, among other things, that the Distributor created various undisclosed incentives for its brokers to sell Smith Barney and Salomon Brothers funds. In addition, according to the complaints, the Advisers caused the Funds to pay excessive brokerage commissions to the Distributor for steering clients towards proprietary funds. The complaints also allege that the defendants breached their fiduciary duty to the Funds by improperly charging Rule 12b-1 fees and by drawing on Fund assets to make undisclosed payments of soft dollars and excessive brokerage commissions.The complaints seek injunctive relief and compensatory and punitive damages, rescission of the Funds’ contracts with the Advisers, recovery of all fees paid to the Advisers pursuant to such contracts and an award of attorneys’ fees and litigation expenses. Citigroup Asset Management believes that the suits are without merit and intends to defend the cases vigorously.
Additional lawsuits arising out of these circumstances and presenting similar allegations and requests for relief may be filed against the defendants in the future. Neither Citigroup Asset Management nor the Funds believe that any of the pending actions will have a material adverse effect on the Funds or the ability of the Distributor or the Advisers to perform under their respective contracts with the Funds.
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SMITH BARNEY
MUNI FUNDS
| TRUSTEES | INVESTMENT MANAGER |
| Lee Abraham | Smith Barney Fund |
| Allan J. Bloostein | Management LLC |
| Jane F. Dasher | |
| Donald R. Foley | DISTRIBUTOR |
| R. Jay Gerken, CFA | Citigroup Global Markets Inc. |
| Chairman | |
| Richard E. Hanson, Jr. | CUSTODIAN |
| Paul Hardin | State Street Bank and |
| Roderick C. Rasmussen | Trust Company |
| John P. Toolan | |
| | TRANSFER AGENT |
| OFFICERS | Citicorp Trust Bank, fsb. |
| R. Jay Gerken, CFA | 125 Broad Street, 11th Floor |
| President and | New York, New York 10004 |
| Chief Executive Officer | |
| | SUB-TRANSFER AGENT |
| Andrew B. Shoup | PFPC Inc. |
| Senior Vice President and | P.O. Box 9699 |
| Chief Administrative Officer | Providence, Rhode Island |
| | 02940-9699 |
| Robert J. Brault | |
| Chief Financial Officer | |
| and Treasurer | |
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| Peter M. Coffey | |
| Vice President and | |
| Investment Officer | |
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| Andrew Beagley | |
| Chief Anti-Money Laundering | |
| Compliance Officer | |
| and Chief Compliance Officer | |
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| Robert I. Frenkel | |
| Secretary and | |
| Chief Legal Officer | |
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Smith Barney Muni Funds
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Georgia Portfolio Pennsylvania Portfolio The Funds are separate investment funds of the Smith Barney Muni Funds, a Massachusetts business trust. | | This report is submitted for the general information of the shareholders of Smith Barney Muni Funds — Georgia and Pennsylvania Portfolios, but it may also be used as sales literature when preceded or accompanied by the current Prospectus. SMITH BARNEY MUNI FUNDS Smith Barney Mutual Funds 125 Broad Street 10th Floor, MF-2 New York, New York 10004 This document must be preceded or accompanied by a free prospectus. Investors should consider the fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other important information about the fund. Please read the prospectus carefully before you invest or send money. www.smithbarneymutualfunds.com |
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with Securities and Exchange Commission for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund’s Forms N-Q are available on the Commission’s website at www.sec.gov. The Fund’s Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the Commission’s Public Reference Room in Washington D.C., and information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. To obtain information on Form N-Q from the Fund, shareholders can call 1-800-451-2010. Information on how the fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the 12 month period ended June 30, 2004 and a description of the policies and procedures that the fund uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities is available (1) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-451-2010, (2) on the fund’s website at www.citigroupAM.com and (3) on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. | | ©2004 Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Member NASD, SIPC FD01563 11/04 04-7397 |
ITEM 2.
| CODE OF ETHICS. |
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| Not Applicable. |
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ITEM 3. | AUDIT COMMITTEE FINANCIAL EXPERT. |
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| Not Applicable.
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ITEM 4. | PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES. |
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| Not applicable. |
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ITEM 5.
| AUDIT COMMITTEE OF LISTED REGISTRANTS. |
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| Not applicable. |
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ITEM 6.
| [RESERVED] |
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ITEM 7.
| DISCLOSURE OF PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES. |
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| Not applicable. |
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ITEM 8.
| [RESERVED] |
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ITEM 9.
| SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS. |
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| Not applicable. |
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ITEM 10.
| CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES. |
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| (a) | The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”)) are effective as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report that includes the disclosure required by this paragraph, based on their evaluation of the disclosure controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the 1940 Act and 15d-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. |
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| (b) | There were no changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the 1940 Act) that occurred during the registrant’s last fiscal half-year (the registrant’s second fiscal half-year in the case of an annual report) that have materially affected, or are likely to materially affect the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting. |
ITEM 11. | EXHIBITS. | |
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| (a) | Not applicable. |
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| (b) | Attached hereto. |
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| Exhibit 99.CERT
| Certifications pursuant to section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 |
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| Exhibit 99.906CERT | Certifications pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, there unto duly authorized.
Smith Barney Muni Funds
By: /s/ R. Jay Gerken
R. Jay Gerken
Chief Executive Officer of
Smith Barney Muni Funds
Date: December 8, 2004
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
By: /s/ R. Jay Gerken
R. Jay Gerken
Chief Executive Officer of
Smith Barney Muni Funds
Date: December 8, 2004
By: /s/ Robert J. Brault
Robert J. Brault
Chief Financial Officer of
Smith Barney Muni Funds
Date: December 8, 2004