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Legislative Fiscal unveils interactive local government finance dashboard
Summary
Legislative Fiscal demonstrated an interactive Local Government dashboard that compiles FY2018–FY2023 trial-balance data from counties and cities, offers fund- and program-level breakdowns, per-capita and outlier comparisons, population filters and inflation adjustments, and plans to add FY2024.
Legislative Fiscal staff demonstrated a new Local Government dashboard to the House Local Government Committee, showing an interactive tool intended to make municipal and county revenue and expenditure data easier to compare.
Ethan Bergen of the Legislative Fiscal Division said the tool compiles trial balance data from counties, cities and towns using the BARS chart of accounts and currently includes fiscal years 2018 through 2023. "We have fiscal year 2018 through 2023 data," Bergen said during the demonstration. The dashboard maps numeric account codes to descriptive categories so users can see, for example, general property tax revenues…
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