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Tuesday, January 8, 2013



Municipal Databank

The Department of Revenue has a ton of information about cities and towns in Massachusetts. It is available online and free of charge.  It is called the Municipal Databank.

There is a section to obtain data on Property Tax. Debt and Financial Indicators has links to financial flexibility reports, free cash, free cash and stabilization fund balances as percentage of budget, regional school excess and deficiency funds, enterprise fund retained earnings….look at this:
DOR Code / Municipality / Enterprise Fund Description
2010
2011
2012
2013
290
Sutton
Landfill
(8,516)
 
9,575
 
290
Sutton
Sewer
427,037
450,346
356,617
593,895
290
Sutton
Trash
 
(1,558)
 
6,341
291
Swampscott
Sewer
515,145
522,393
632,503
 
291
Swampscott
Water
1,214,309
720,447
1,214,345
 
292
Swansea
Other
154,818
304,027
243,423
 
293
Taunton
Golf
50,077
53,061
53,061
54,403
293
Taunton
Other
(152,699)
162,380
21,716
241,323
293
Taunton
Water
1,148,532
1,903,991
3,633,866
4,286,502
293
Taunton
Sewer
   
(625,221)
294
Templeton
Sewer
638,672
824,816
919,779
 
295
Tewksbury
Sewer
2,020,972
87,032
867,435
2,765,951
295
Tewksbury
Water
153,926
(717,754)
714,427
1,751,088
296
Tisbury
Wastewater
83,352
(29,471)
155,081
 
296
Tisbury
Water
 
489,892
787,820
 
297
Tolland
Trash
30,560
33,972
38,918
25,592
298
Topsfield
Other
300,374
272,267
240,195
 
298
Topsfield
Water
403,791
(17,337)
1,308,574
 
299
Townsend
Water
106,412
170,930
397,502
339,857
301
Tyngsborough
Sewer
130,246
790,918
478,897
722,772
303
Upton
Wastewater
 
5,497
41,874
 
303
Upton
Water
 
35,558
32,352
117,924
303
Upton
Sewer
   
46,955
304
Uxbridge
Ambulance
275,675
171,338
150,876
126,628
304
Uxbridge
Sewer
682,408
854,507
1,181,955
1,441,975
304
Uxbridge
Water
1,117,388
1,522,017
1,775,639
1,945,505
305
Wakefield
Sewer
506,633
597,212
700,808
1,430,9

The DOR has the sewer enterprise in Templeton listed with $919,779 in Enterprise funds retained earnings in 2012. Why isn’t there a listing for the water enterprise fund? Isn’t that odd? Curious even? Just more things that make you go hmmm…

Have fun exploring the Municipal Databank !

My opinions…supported by FACTS ! ! !

Julie Farrell

7 comments:

  1. Why would Templeton only list a sewer amount?
    commissioners asleep again and what about the water dept amount,Electric dept amount,
    So many question and so few meetings.
    How about it superintendent Driscoll when is the next posting going to happen? soon we hope.
    looking forward to it, I've invited a special guest! Guess who! nope guess again!
    well you'll see!
    Sahreholder
    Dave Smart

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    1. I have the most awful feeling! I am afraid of what we are going to find, the more we look. I think we are going down the rabbit trail and there is going to be a monster at the end, with no one to save us! I hope I am wrong. Bev. Oh I just thought of something, This site only shows what they have been given! Do you think some one was with holding information???

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  2. Also, lest readers get the wrong impression, that $900+K is not all cash. It includes uncollected betterments, uncollected hookup fees, and I believe a few other receivables. I believe that actual cash is less than half of that figure, marginally enough. Thank you.

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    1. Tommy, Maybe that is "pooled cash", what the hell ever that is!! That must be a Scott and Carol special. Mrs. Clogston, tried in vain to teach me bookkeeping, in high school. I don"t remember "Pooled Cash" as a term she used. Maybe I am wrong, but I don't think so. Bev

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    2. Sorry Tom check with past employee as to what is in that acct. Does not include betterments and unpaid user fees. want to know what is in there talk to the former employee and by past employee I mean look in another office for that employee who knows everything about sewer and fought with Scott year after year - Jeff B and Julie who I'm talking about, hee-hee-hee

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  3. Is this why "municipal" has been taken off Templeton Light and Water Dept. Not only does the management think they are not part of the town, but now the DOR thinks the same way? Why is the info not there? Who keeps screwing things up? Is it intentional? or is it just stupid is as stupid does?

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  4. I would like to know if Commissioner/Chair Stewart considers the oversight of listing the water dept as an enterprise fund as "doing a good job". I would also like to know if he considers the same for submitting the same annual report 2 years in a row. DOens't sound like a managment is "doing a good job" to me and I'm sure any business consultant would not think so either. I wonder what the DOR thinks of these two items. Do they think the L&W are "doing a good job" managing themselves?

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