Porter County Government Budgets, 2004
	APPROPRIATIONS				REVENUES & BALANCES			Assessed	Property
Unit Name	Total	Gen. Fund	Capital	Other	Total	Prop. Tax	Other	Value	Tax Rate
COUNTY TOTAL	341,116,333	228,903,613	67,893,919	44,318,801	343,815,339	180,899,048	162,916,291	7,855,946,714	2.3027
Porter Cnty	41,558,062	27,028,744	6,491,038	8,038,280	41,558,062	31,140,972	10,417,090	7,855,946,714	0.3964
Boone Twsp	121,105	45,620	0	75,485	121,105	103,021	18,084	221,211,806	0.0466
Center Twsp	2,352,721	236,567	957,633	1,158,521	2,352,721	1,189,393	1,163,328	777,772,727	0.1529
Jackson Twsp	201,060	35,460	100,000	65,600	201,060	118,788	82,272	303,750,000	0.0391
Liberty Twsp	275,978	37,737	0	238,241	275,978	230,993	44,985	299,463,983	0.0771
Morgan Twsp	145,810	29,910	54,900	61,000	145,810	85,024	60,786	176,032,407	0.0483
Pine Twsp	106,903	44,060	21,000	41,843	106,903	89,306	17,597	244,914,773	0.0365
Pleasant Twsp	259,085	76,958	31,887	150,240	259,085	166,111	92,974	189,295,139	0.0878
Portage Twsp	2,405,448	530,668	201,680	1,673,100	2,405,448	1,285,749	1,119,699	1,817,551,095	0.0707
Porter Twsp	291,800	71,500	45,000	175,300	291,800	241,506	50,294	228,236,677	0.1058
Union Twsp	342,784	37,469	100,000	205,315	342,784	295,909	46,875	469,696,629	0.0630
Washington Twsp	245,275	64,225	57,000	124,050	245,275	157,335	87,940	209,183,391	0.0752
Westchester Twsp	211,913	45,575	84,500	81,838	211,913	111,213	100,700	1,247,833,333	0.0089
Valparaiso City	17,677,825	11,596,720	840,982	5,240,123	17,677,825	11,312,672	6,365,153	1,402,860,954	0.8064
Portage City	19,219,989	10,624,572	2,201,553	6,393,864	19,219,989	12,372,517	6,847,472	1,441,682,059	0.8582
Chesterton Town	6,307,592	3,891,715	1,006,806	1,409,071	6,307,592	3,729,958	2,577,634	655,068,010	0.5694
Beverly Shores Town	710,269	415,645	245,867	48,757	710,269	684,007	26,262	137,627,181	0.4970
Burns Harbor Town	2,002,045	763,162	1,120,011	118,872	2,002,045	931,636	1,070,409	133,071,714	0.7001
Dune Acres Town	366,474	287,324	38,150	41,000	366,474	236,740	129,734	72,067,151	0.3285
Hebron Town	927,799	739,972	46,976	140,851	927,799	496,738	431,061	106,072,699	0.4683
Kouts Town	652,893	460,000	94,850	98,043	652,893	261,012	391,881	73,669,590	0.3543
Ogden Dunes Town	863,917	513,416	117,755	232,746	863,917	606,611	257,306	147,450,489	0.4114
Porter Town	2,805,885	1,663,670	221,324	920,891	2,805,885	1,659,686	1,146,199	262,941,327	0.6312
Pines Town	168,081	101,850	9,031	57,200	168,081	74,738	93,343	33,335,415	0.2242
Michigan City Area School Corp *	0	0	0	0	2,658,769	2,658,769	0	212,735,513	1.2498
Boone Twsp School Corp	8,492,513	6,487,300	1,292,097	713,116	8,492,513	2,981,493	5,511,020	221,211,877	1.3478
Duneland School Corp	56,974,350	40,190,554	13,296,384	3,487,412	56,974,350	25,525,809	31,448,541	1,950,768,793	1.3085
East Porter School Corp	19,897,718	12,342,201	6,037,374	1,518,143	19,897,718	11,922,819	7,974,899	716,730,887	1.6635
Porter Twsp School Corp	13,548,226	8,881,932	3,544,944	1,121,350	13,548,226	7,201,892	6,346,334	428,837,149	1.6794
Union Twsp School Corp	13,107,872	9,197,000	3,074,394	836,478	13,107,872	6,622,723	6,485,149	469,696,747	1.4100
Portage Twsp School Corp	61,157,828	48,738,159	8,433,373	3,986,296	61,157,828	21,156,316	40,001,512	1,817,552,915	1.1640
Valparaiso School Corp	57,089,621	37,033,322	15,861,420	4,194,879	57,089,621	28,199,404	28,890,217	2,038,412,935	1.3834
Westchester Library	2,831,393	2,536,200	295,193	0	2,831,393	1,858,014	973,379	1,247,826,868	0.1489
Porter Library	5,840,203	4,154,406	1,685,797	0	5,840,203	4,493,521	1,346,682	6,608,119,639	0.0680
West Porter Fire	82,932	0	0	82,932	123,169	123,169	0	200,600,484	0.0614
Porter Co Sw Dist	723,955	0	0	723,955	723,955	0	723,955	0	0.0000
Porter Co Airport Auth	1,149,009	0	285,000	864,009	1,149,009	573,484	575,525	7,855,943,396	0.0073
*  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.