{ "metadata": { "source": "CT Office of Policy and Management — Municipal Fiscal Indicators (Uniform Chart of Accounts program)", "dataset_id": "ej6f-y2wf", "dataset_name": "Municipal Fiscal Indicators: Individual Town Data, 2014-2023", "landing_page": "https://data.ct.gov/d/ej6f-y2wf", "source_url": "https://data.ct.gov/resource/ej6f-y2wf.json", "program_page": "https://portal.ct.gov/opm/igp-munfins/municipal-financial-services/municipal-fiscal-indicators", "pulled": "2026-08-25", "dataset_last_updated": "2026-03-03", "recipe": "python Data/fetch_ct_ucoa.py (Python 3, standard library, no API key)", "row_count_source": 1700, "entity_count": 170, "entity_note": "170 entities = 169 towns plus Groton (City), a sub-municipality reported separately from Groton (Town).", "fiscal_year_note": "OPM fiscal_year_end Y = the fiscal year ending June 30 of year Y. 2023 = FY 2022-23.", "basis_note": "Audited year-end ACTUAL expenditures and revenues across governmental funds, compiled from the ACFRs municipalities file with OPM. This is NOT the adopted general-fund budget used elsewhere on this site: OPM totals are gross of grant pass-throughs (ESSER, Title I, IDEA, food service) and therefore run several million dollars higher for Clinton. The two series are not interchangeable.", "self_reporting_note": "OPM compiled the figures itself through FY 2019; from FY 2020 forward municipalities self-report their own audited data.", "revaluation_note": "Nominal mill rates step down when a town revalues. Use equalized_mill_rate for comparisons across towns or across time. Revaluation grand list years for Clinton: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020.", "coverage": "FY 2013-14 through FY 2022-23. 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