Local government spending data online

As you know from past posts here on the IREN Blog, IAR supports efforts to create greater efficiency in local government. One tool that can help us achieve this goal is better data, and the State of Indiana is helping out in this area. Thanks to legislation originally promoted by Senator Luke Kenley (Noblesville), the Department of Local Government Finance is now publishing information on per capita spending by local units. In the long run, these numbers could be successfully used by proponents of future consolidations or other reforms.

Purdue economist Dr. Larry DeBoer wrote a recent column about the DLGF's figures, and you can read it here courtesy of the Carroll County Comet.

To visit the DLGF's webpage and compare spending data for your local units of government with others throughout the state, click here (WARNING: this is a rather large PDF file).