Wells County Government Budgets, 2006 
  APPROPRIATIONS REVENUES & BALANCES Assessed Property
Unit Name Total Gen. Fund Capital Other Total Prop. Tax Other Value Tax Rate
COUNTY TOTAL   42,059,574   27,491,416   5,363,027   9,205,131   42,059,574   28,218,462   24,413,171   1,172,255,820    2.4072
Wells Cnty    12,029,796     7,244,097      473,525   4,312,174   12,029,796     4,976,226     7,053,570   1,172,255,820    0.4245
Chester Twsp           51,148          15,100        12,548        23,500          51,148          24,608          26,540        53,846,648    0.0457
Harrison Twsp         447,896          14,610      134,031      299,255        447,896        146,394        301,502      333,120,322    0.0439
Jackson Twsp           44,040          14,040                 0        30,000          44,040          15,596          28,444        44,056,150    0.0354
Jefferson Twsp         110,690          37,677        22,000        51,013        110,690          66,797          43,893      231,041,305    0.0289
Lancaster Twsp         101,050          20,550                 0        80,500        101,050          59,283          41,767      244,234,006    0.0243
Liberty Twsp           65,711          11,142        25,000        29,569          65,711          26,570          39,141        53,791,169    0.0494
Nottingham Twsp           52,400          12,400                 0        40,000          52,400          17,651          34,749        51,164,020    0.0345
Rockcreek Twsp           60,694          10,694          9,000        41,000          60,694          33,178          27,516        75,733,210    0.0438
Union Twsp           71,600          13,600        16,000        42,000          71,600          27,971          43,629        85,268,990    0.0328
Bluffton City      5,238,093     3,523,206      115,000   1,599,887     5,238,093     2,393,715     2,844,378      351,706,588    0.6806
Zanesville Town *        119,233          57,089          6,396        55,748        119,233          26,845          92,388          9,719,140    0.2762
Markle Town *                   0                   0                 0                 0                   0        192,592                   0        16,712,288    1.1524
Ossian Town      1,426,898        664,400      342,532      419,966     1,426,898        430,755        996,143      123,660,105    0.3483
Poneto Town           66,805          50,000          5,400        11,405          66,805          25,396          41,409          3,446,309    0.7369
Uniondale Town         101,726          74,266          7,000        20,460        101,726          18,702          83,024          4,867,760    0.3842
Vera Cruz Town                    0                   0                 0                 0                   0            2,679                   0          1,565,110    0.1712
Southern Wells School Corp      6,238,199     4,726,670      838,695      672,834     6,238,199     2,721,745     3,516,454      202,857,987    1.3417
Northern Wells School Corp                    0                   0                 0                 0                   0   10,337,982                   0      630,595,421    1.6394
 Bluffton-Harrison School Corp    13,078,046     9,314,939   3,033,913      729,194   13,078,046     5,348,335     7,729,711      338,802,412    1.5786
Wells Library      2,608,923     1,686,936      321,987      600,000     2,608,923     1,169,410     1,439,513   1,155,543,532    0.1012
Markle Library*                   0                   0                 0                 0                   0                   0                   0                        0 #DIV/0!
Huntington Library *                   0                   0                 0                 0                   0          38,806                   0        16,712,288    0.2322
Wells Cnty Solid Waste         146,626                   0                 0      146,626        146,626        117,226          29,400   1,172,255,820    0.0100
*  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.