Porter 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	349,099,406	229,259,495	72,209,867	47,630,044	351,824,334	195,905,927	155,918,407	8,287,598,783	2.3638
Porter Cnty	43,049,644	27,654,225	6,020,096	9,375,323	43,049,644	33,556,488	9,493,156	8,287,598,783	0.4049
Boone Twsp	158,589	55,330	21,000	82,259	158,589	137,728	20,861	221,855,072	0.0621
Center Twsp	2,454,771	227,969	1,000,000	1,226,802	2,454,771	1,240,658	1,214,113	812,416,753	0.1527
Jackson Twsp	204,510	36,110	100,000	68,400	204,510	122,402	82,108	309,559,748	0.0395
Liberty Twsp	374,344	46,000	75,000	253,344	374,344	239,856	134,488	309,824,895	0.0774
Morgan Twsp	143,969	29,910	54,900	59,159	143,969	81,194	62,775	181,642,458	0.0447
Pine Twsp	113,313	44,060	23,158	46,095	113,313	92,555	20,758	230,259,459	0.0402
Pleasant Twsp	274,243	84,003	40,000	150,240	274,243	173,290	100,953	196,423,841	0.0882
Portage Twsp	2,369,793	504,195	218,036	1,647,562	2,369,793	1,466,807	902,986	1,820,800,000	0.0806
Porter Twsp	291,800	71,500	45,000	175,300	291,800	246,767	45,033	233,545,171	0.1057
Union Twsp	390,056	57,215	100,000	232,841	390,056	306,396	83,660	475,771,117	0.0644
Washington Twsp	230,001	58,375	63,876	107,750	230,001	182,821	47,180	215,142,395	0.0850
Westchester Twsp	216,358	52,405	84,500	79,453	216,358	133,959	82,399	186,431,907	0.0719
Valparaiso City	18,444,350	12,144,584	836,478	5,463,288	18,444,350	11,859,063	6,585,287	1,409,946,824	0.8411
Portage City	20,698,813	11,738,450	1,840,342	7,120,021	20,698,813	12,784,612	7,914,201	1,433,252,289	0.8920
Chesterton Town	6,464,708	3,801,626	1,148,811	1,514,271	6,464,708	3,824,219	2,640,489	670,562,804	0.5703
Beverly Shores Town	1,017,656	471,458	484,162	62,036	1,017,656	694,247	323,409	126,089,176	0.5506
Burns Harbor Town	1,133,929	928,520	40,000	165,409	1,133,929	879,894	254,035	475,875,241	0.1849
Dune Acres Town	362,700	300,000	17,700	45,000	362,700	246,959	115,741	74,006,529	0.3337
Hebron Town	1,079,405	820,725	57,000	201,680	1,079,405	510,338	569,067	104,663,287	0.4876
Kouts Town	755,290	485,000	111,600	158,690	755,290	260,377	494,913	75,449,907	0.3451
Ogden Dunes Town	896,854	581,152	115,997	199,705	896,854	626,192	270,662	148,281,400	0.4223
Porter Town	2,922,029	1,746,854	230,462	944,713	2,922,029	1,699,030	1,222,999	252,606,301	0.6726
Pines Town	0	0	0	0	78,029	78,029	0	30,349,844	0.2571
Michigan City Area School Corp *	0	0	0	0	2,606,298	2,606,298	0	196,286,987	1.3278
Boone Twsp School Corp	9,116,369	6,675,500	1,759,170	681,699	9,116,369	3,938,355	5,178,014	221,854,167	1.7752
Duneland School Corp	57,608,948	37,557,767	16,385,046	3,666,135	57,608,948	30,800,896	26,808,052	2,318,297,099	1.3286
East Porter School Corp	20,696,168	12,967,246	6,098,683	1,630,239	20,696,168	11,988,044	8,708,124	732,496,936	1.6366
Porter Twsp School Corp	14,314,311	9,457,512	3,831,406	1,025,393	14,314,311	7,070,879	7,243,432	439,021,398	1.6106
Union Twsp School Corp	13,802,732	9,485,000	3,416,881	900,851	13,802,732	7,116,569	6,686,163	475,770,123	1.4958
Portage Twsp School Corp	61,955,093	47,759,231	9,630,231	4,565,631	61,955,093	22,200,996	39,754,097	1,820,798,589	1.2193
Valparaiso School Corp	56,527,930	36,292,255	16,072,347	4,163,328	56,527,930	31,348,176	25,179,754	2,083,073,738	1.5049
Westchester Library	3,141,886	2,901,750	240,136	0	3,141,886	1,946,884	1,195,002	1,572,604,510	0.1238
Porter Library	5,986,417	4,223,568	1,762,849	0	5,986,417	4,720,641	1,265,776	6,714,993,435	0.0703
West Porter Fire	87,000	0	0	87,000	127,601	127,601	0	205,476,190	0.0621
Porter Co Sw Dist	656,104	0	0	656,104	656,104	0	656,104	0	0.0000
Porter Co Airport Auth	1,159,323	0	285,000	874,323	1,159,323	596,707	562,616	8,287,596,154	0.0072
*  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.