| 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. | ||||||||||