| Blackford County Government Budgets, 2005 | ||||||||||
| APPROPRIATIONS | REVENUES & BALANCES | Assessed | Property | |||||||
| Unit Name | Total | Gen. Fund | Capital | Other | Total | Prop. Tax | Other | Value | Tax Rate | |
| COUNTY TOTAL | 33,531,007 | 22,843,646 | 5,982,672 | 4,704,689 | 33,625,209 | 13,528,146 | 20,097,063 | 417,219,959 | 3.2424 | |
| Blackford Cnty | 8,213,068 | 4,768,319 | 788,500 | 2,656,249 | 8,213,068 | 3,394,503 | 4,818,565 | 417,219,959 | 0.8136 | |
| Harrison Twsp | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49,851 | 49,851 | 0 | 90,240,664 | 0.0552 | |
| Jackson Twsp | 71,900 | 11,370 | 0 | 60,530 | 71,900 | 26,439 | 45,461 | 54,296,875 | 0.0487 | |
| Licking Twsp | 195,741 | 23,454 | 0 | 172,287 | 195,741 | 157,487 | 38,254 | 227,355,641 | 0.0693 | |
| Washington Twsp | 40,395 | 16,595 | 0 | 23,800 | 40,395 | 22,130 | 18,265 | 43,822,006 | 0.0505 | |
| Hartford City City | 3,129,738 | 2,057,625 | 377,907 | 694,206 | 3,129,738 | 1,680,542 | 1,449,196 | 160,694,376 | 1.0458 | |
| Dunkirk City * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20,595 | 20,595 | 0 | 1,505,043 | 1.3684 | |
| Montpelier City | 701,801 | 543,139 | 73,606 | 85,056 | 701,801 | 385,343 | 316,458 | 46,816,018 | 0.8231 | |
| Shamrock Lakes Town | 57,005 | 32,005 | 0 | 25,000 | 57,005 | 26,194 | 30,811 | 6,177,903 | 0.4240 | |
| Blackford School Corp | 20,573,943 | 14,921,748 | 4,718,885 | 933,310 | 20,573,943 | 7,414,277 | 13,159,666 | 415,714,989 | 1.7835 | |
| Jay School Corp * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21,297 | 21,297 | 0 | 1,505,058 | 1.4150 | |
| Hartford City Library | 391,399 | 357,625 | 23,774 | 10,000 | 391,399 | 257,272 | 134,127 | 160,694,730 | 0.1601 | |
| Montpelier Library | 111,766 | 111,766 | 0 | 0 | 111,766 | 69,757 | 42,009 | 90,241,915 | 0.0773 | |
| Dunkirk Library * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,459 | 2,459 | 0 | 1,504,896 | 0.1634 | |
| Blackford Cnty Solid Waste | 44,251 | 0 | 0 | 44,251 | 44,251 | 0 | 44,251 | 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. | ||||||||||