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Randolph County Budget
Each department within the county prepares a budget which is then sublitted to the Auditor's Office to combine into the general proposed budget for the county.
The proposed budget is then reviewed with the county's representative from the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF) who reviews the total budgeted amount and compares it to the projected levy (tax dollars that can be collected) for the upcoming year. If the proposed budget cannot be supported by the levy, then the amount of the budget that must be cut is determined.
Each department then presents their justification for their budget in regularly scheduled sessions with the County Council. The auditors office is present at each of these meetings making recommendations to the county council on the most appropriate areas to cut the budget.
The county council then meets to review and adopt the final adjusted budget.
During this process, the townships and school boards are completing their own budgeting processes with the DLGF.
The budgets (township budgets, school board budgets, library budgets, city and town budgets, and the general county budget are then sent to the Indiana Department of Local Finance for approval. The DLGF ultimately approves the finalized budget in the form of a Budget Order which includes the budgets and the tax rates for all taxing units in the county.
The budget order is a critical document in calculating tax bills. The order contains the state's certification of the approved budget, the estimated assessed value, the tax rate and the levy for each fund of each taxing unit in Randolph County. The order also gives the total tax rate, and the local homestead credit rate for each taxing district.