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  "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 Windham. 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 Windham: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.",
  "coverage": "FY 2013-14 through FY 2022-23. This is the full span OPM publishes town-by-town as of the pull date; FY 2023-24 and FY 2024-25 are not yet released.",
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   "unemployment_annual_average": "Unemployment rate, annual average (0-1)",
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   "equalized_mill_rate": "Equalized mill rate — tax per $1,000 of fair market value; comparable across towns and across revaluation cycles",
   "net_grand_list": "Net taxable grand list as assessed (70% of market value at last revaluation)",
   "mill_rate_real_estate_personal": "Nominal mill rate on real estate and personal property",
   "total_taxes_collected_as": "Total taxes collected as a share of total outstanding (0-1)",
   "property_tax_revenues": "Property tax revenues",
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   "total_revenues": "Total revenues",
   "total_revenues_and_other": "Total revenues and other financing sources",
   "education_expenditures": "Education expenditures",
   "operating_expenditures": "Operating (non-education) expenditures",
   "total_expenditures": "Total expenditures",
   "total_expenditures_and_other": "Total expenditures and other financing uses",
   "unassigned": "Unassigned fund balance",
   "total_fund_balance": "Total fund balance (deficit)",
   "net_pension_liability": "Net pension liability",
   "net_opeb_liability": "Net OPEB (retiree health) liability",
   "bonded_long_term_debt": "Bonded long-term debt outstanding",
   "annual_debt_service": "Annual debt service (principal and interest paid)"
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  "groups_note": "Surrounding towns = The towns sharing a land border with Windham; DRG I = The official 2006 CT SDE District Reference Group this town belongs to. Group medians exclude Windham."
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