Porter 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	322,324,696	215,604,800	63,385,142	43,334,754	325,574,380	172,455,961	153,118,419	7,883,823,529	2.1875
Porter Cnty	41,695,155	27,717,731	6,448,916	7,528,508	41,695,155	30,817,833	10,877,322	7,883,815,058	0.3909
Boone Twsp	117,010	36,570	0	80,440	117,010	98,507	18,503	220,360,656	0.0447
Center Twsp	1,877,602	228,906	670,696	978,000	1,877,602	1,149,611	727,991	824,310,424	0.1395
Jackson Twsp	195,800	33,800	100,000	62,000	195,800	116,528	79,272	307,539,474	0.0379
Liberty Twsp	517,799	46,000	223,265	248,534	517,799	217,992	299,807	285,660,215	0.0763
Morgan Twsp	129,619	29,910	40,830	58,879	129,619	106,715	22,904	175,517,007	0.0608
Pine Twsp	117,478	51,122	21,000	45,356	117,478	85,847	31,631	246,700,000	0.0348
Pleasant Twsp	256,679	69,479	40,000	147,200	256,679	160,014	96,665	198,268,707	0.0807
Portage Twsp	2,268,582	511,859	137,559	1,619,164	2,268,582	1,369,136	899,446	1,777,734,317	0.0770
Porter Twsp	281,162	68,105	41,057	172,000	281,162	232,746	48,416	226,926,710	0.1026
Union Twsp	343,910	45,793	100,000	198,117	343,910	286,938	56,972	469,618,768	0.0611
Washington Twsp	206,025	57,225	45,000	103,800	206,025	161,138	44,887	209,449,664	0.0769
Westchester Twsp	181,487	45,575	54,394	81,518	181,487	113,383	68,104	1,270,793,103	0.0089
Valparaiso City	17,614,818	11,373,770	1,054,374	5,186,674	17,614,818	11,126,033	6,488,785	1,414,266,345	0.7867
Portage City	18,786,390	10,324,774	2,054,999	6,406,617	18,786,390	12,621,812	6,164,578	1,403,515,224	0.8993
Chesterton Town	6,068,022	3,473,181	1,289,470	1,305,371	6,068,022	3,686,566	2,381,456	640,362,540	0.5757
Beverly Shores Town	550,133	409,701	18,384	122,048	550,133	262,246	287,887	137,878,917	0.1902
Burns Harbor Town	1,885,558	681,408	1,125,278	78,872	1,885,558	1,244,290	641,268	166,415,714	0.7477
Dune Acres Town	317,980	268,880	18,000	31,100	317,980	226,395	91,585	70,660,090	0.3204
Hebron Town	975,262	711,575	32,698	230,989	975,262	475,274	499,988	104,089,690	0.4566
Kouts Town	675,930	460,000	89,535	126,395	675,930	263,403	412,527	80,551,468	0.3270
Ogden Dunes Town	1,055,025	662,826	107,630	284,569	1,055,025	569,262	485,763	145,442,568	0.3914
Porter Town	2,601,792	1,568,861	148,646	884,285	2,601,792	1,580,669	1,021,123	268,137,280	0.5895
Pines Town	182,291	97,791	7,000	77,500	182,291	70,897	111,394	35,555,165	0.1994
Michigan City Area School Corp *	0	0	0	0	2,570,586	2,570,586	0	215,165,824	1.1947
Boone Twsp School Corp	8,418,220	6,440,300	1,408,153	569,767	8,418,220	2,564,567	5,853,653	220,361,498	1.1638
Duneland School Corp	50,765,021	33,370,521	14,010,108	3,384,392	50,765,021	26,223,414	24,541,607	1,954,491,657	1.3417
East Porter School Corp	18,867,561	12,135,969	5,361,856	1,369,736	18,867,561	10,963,456	7,904,105	737,534,857	1.4865
Porter Twsp School Corp	12,998,492	8,580,667	3,409,325	1,008,500	12,998,492	6,047,599	6,950,893	424,631,306	1.4242
Union Twsp School Corp	13,029,167	9,068,000	3,033,229	927,938	13,029,167	6,019,583	7,009,584	469,619,444	1.2818
Portage Twsp School Corp	57,941,593	47,220,452	6,558,106	4,163,035	57,941,593	18,376,430	39,565,163	1,777,733,491	1.0337
Valparaiso School Corp	53,382,443	35,483,613	13,711,225	4,187,605	53,382,443	25,880,467	27,501,976	2,084,276,953	1.2417
Westchester Library	1,189,249	999,850	189,399	0	1,828,675	1,828,675	0	1,270,795,559	0.1439
Porter Library	4,880,596	3,330,586	1,550,010	0	4,880,596	4,258,784	621,812	6,613,018,779	0.0644
West Porter Fire	79,742	0	0	79,742	119,414	119,414	0	197,704,715	0.0604
Porter Co Sw Dist	740,916	0	0	740,916	740,916	0	740,916	0	0.0000
Porter Co Airport Auth	1,130,187	0	285,000	845,187	1,130,187	559,751	570,436	7,883,823,529	0.0071
*  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.