Blackford County Government Budgets, 2003 
  APPROPRIATIONS REVENUES & BALANCES Assessed Property
Unit Name Total Gen. Fund Capital Other Total Prop. Tax Other Value Tax Rate
COUNTY TOTAL   31,560,927   21,667,540   5,227,521   4,665,866   31,610,271   13,078,228   18,532,043   441,189,845    2.9643
Blackford Cnty      7,640,763     4,419,270      721,500   2,499,993     7,640,763     3,311,571     4,329,192   441,189,845    0.7506
Harrison Twsp           70,136          20,537                 0        49,599          70,136          46,012          24,124   101,487,310    0.0453
Jackson Twsp           58,370          10,870                 0        47,500          58,370          24,883          33,487     54,097,826    0.0460
Licking Twsp         186,123          23,039                 0      163,084        186,123        140,412          45,711   240,222,222    0.0585
Washington Twsp           38,930          14,130                 0        24,800          38,930          20,954          17,976     43,563,758    0.0481
Hartford City City      3,131,319     2,108,307      305,041      717,971     3,131,319     1,489,907     1,641,412   173,043,868    0.8610
Dunkirk City *                   0                   0                 0                 0          21,432          21,432                   0       1,816,580    1.1798
Montpelier City         728,967        539,918        80,886      108,163        728,967        356,021        372,946     54,722,038    0.6506
Shamrock Lakes Town           43,500          26,586                 0        16,914          43,500          24,696          18,804       5,966,752    0.4139
Blackford School Corp    19,106,019   14,041,058   4,096,320      968,641   19,106,019     7,312,490   11,793,529   439,373,326    1.6643
Jay School Corp *                   0                   0                 0                 0          25,859          25,859                   0       1,816,566    1.4235
Hartford City Library         394,674        360,900        23,774        10,000        394,674        239,319        155,355   173,043,515    0.1383
Montpelier Library         102,925        102,925                 0                 0        102,925          62,619          40,306   101,489,465    0.0617
Dunkirk Library *                   0                   0                 0                 0            2,053            2,053                   0       1,816,814    0.1130
Blackford Cnty Solid Waste           59,201                   0                 0        59,201          59,201                   0          59,201                     0    0.0000
*  Cross-county unit.  If total appropriations are zero, the unit is assigned to another county.  Cross county units assigned to this county will have additional 
property tax revenue and assessed value in another county.  Zero total appropriations for units that are not cross county indicate missing data.
Notes.  Appropriations are authorized spending for the budget year.  Capital appropriations include debt service, lease payments, cumulative funds, capital projects funds.
Other appropriations include all non-general, non-capital funds, such as highway funds for counties and transportation funds for school corporations.
Property taxes are gross levies, before subtracting state property tax replacement credits or homestead credits.  Tax rate is gross payment per $100 assessed value.
Other revenues/balances include miscellaneous revenues, such as income taxes, motor vehicle excise taxes, state aid, and fees.  It also includes net changes
in balances, and (for cross county units) gross property taxes collected in other counties.
Source:  Prepared by Larry DeBoer, Purdue University, from Local Government Data Base data.