Where to find on line county budgets? (2009, area)

[mrs1885]

Does anyone know where I can find the budgets that each county turns in to the state? I'm looking for a detailed budget and all I can find is the summary. Specifically I'm looking for what each county in my area is spending on domestic animal services.

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by mrs1885

Does anyone know where I can find the budgets that each county turns in to the state? I'm looking for a detailed budget and all I can find is the summary. Specifically I'm looking for what each county in my area is spending on domestic animal services.

The State budget document is 609 pages and it is here for 2008 - 2009:

http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/govf...t-Document.pdf

It's searchable.

If the counties have their own budgets online, I would assume they would be on their individual websites but if they are voluminous like the state's, maybe not. I don't think it's anything nefarious. It's probably more to do with the capacity of each county's website.

You didn't say what counties so I didn't check. I looked at my county and Roane County and the budgets were not online however there is an Accounting/Budget phone number on both counties' websites and I suppose if I wanted the documents, I could call and ask where to get them.

Picking another county randomly, I looked at Scott County's website and their 2008 budget is online---in Microsoft Works!!! (an unusual word processing program choice for government or business) I could not open it because I don't have Microsoft Works on my PC.

Do your search on Google like this substituting the county in which you are interested:

"Scott County" budget TN

or

"Scott County" budget Tennessee

[mrs1885]

Originally Posted by LauraC

The State budget document is 609 pages and it is here for 2008 - 2009:

http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/govf...t-Document.pdf

It's searchable.

If the counties have their own budgets online, I would assume they would be on their individual websites but if they are voluminous like the state's, maybe not. I don't think it's anything nefarious. It's probably more to do with the capacity of each county's website.

You didn't say what counties so I didn't check. I looked at my county and Roane County and the budgets were not online however there is an Accounting/Budget phone number on both counties' websites and I suppose if I wanted the documents, I could call and ask where to get them.

Picking another county randomly, I looked at Scott County's website and their 2008 budget is online---in Microsoft Works!!! (an unusual word processing program choice for government or business) I could not open it because I don't have Microsoft Works on my PC.

Do your search on Google like this substituting the county in which you are interested:

"Scott County" budget TN

or

"Scott County" budget Tennessee

Wonderful, thank you very much. I was looking at Van Buren, Warren, White and Cannon. I'll go take a peek now!!