Appendix D: 1993 "No-Where" County's Budgeted Expenditures

From Facilitator's Guide for Teaching "Taxes: Where Does the Money Go? Federal, State and Local Government"

by Scott Loveridge, Liz Templin, Carole Yoho, and Nancy Lenhart.

Social Services—29.9%

Includes: administration; social services (children and families, chemical dependency, mental health, developmentally disabled); adult day care and nursing homes; mental health (outpatient therapy, community support, and youth resource program); day treatment; income maintenance (financial assistance, medical assistance, food stamps, child support, and fraud investigations); court services (out of home placement and therapeutic services for delinquent youth); transportation (bus and volunteer transportation for elderly and disabled); employment and training (child care licensing, child care assistance, job search, and placement programs).

Ditches—0.3%

Money that comes in for ditches and is spent on ditches only.

Roads and Bridges—15.2%

Surveyor, administration, engineering, maintenance, equipment and shop, construction, ditches, and non-departmental.

Waste Management—1.7%

Recycling and hazardous waste program.

Public Library System—2.0%

Criminal Justice—18.7%

Includes court system—courts, judges, court administration, probation officers.

Debt Service—3.9%

Repaying debts (e.g., construction of buildings—jail, roads.

Self Insurance—1.3%

Liability and worker's compensation.

Grants—2.8%

Money that comes into the county from grants and as a result spent from them (in and out).

General Fund—20.9%

Includes: administration; assessor; attorney; auditor; commissioners; community health services; court administration; court services; ditch allocation; emergency services/risk; fuel allocation; Minnesota Extension Service—"No-Where" County; parks; planning and zoning; recorder; sheriff; treasurer; veterans services; HRA; non-departmental; and rail authority.

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