Eagle Mountain, Utah · Statement of the record
The city’s money,
followed all the way through.
A rate is levied, a budget appropriates it, a model carries it forward, and payroll is the largest thing it buys. Four pages, one chain. Three of them republish figures the city published first. One does not, and says so.
The four pages
- What the city charges Tax The rate the council adopted, the case the city made for it in public, and what it does to your bill.
- What it spends Budget Every dollar the city appropriates, traced from the fund that holds it to what it buys.
- What a different rate would bring in Projections A model, not a city forecast: what each property-tax rate would do to the General Fund, year by year.
- What it pays people to do the work Staffing Who the city employs, how that compares with cities its size, and what it contracts out instead.
How the four fit together
They are a chain, and it runs in one direction. The tax rate is what the council adopted and what a household pays. The budget is what that revenue, plus every other source, is appropriated to. The projections take the first and carry it forward against the second to ask whether the two stay in line. And staffing is the largest recurring thing the budget buys, which is why a claim about how many people the city employs is a claim about the budget.
Read in that order they answer one question: does what the city collects cover what it has committed to spend, and if not, when does that stop being true.
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