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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 Cromwell. 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 Cromwell: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2022.", "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.", "fields": { "population_state_dept_of_public_health": "Population, CT Dept of Public Health estimate", "school_enrollment_average": "Average Daily Membership enrollment, CT State Dept of Education", "unemployment_annual_average": "Unemployment rate, annual average (0-1)", "equalized_net_grand_list": "Equalized net grand list (grand list restated to full fair market value)", "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", "intergovernmental_revenues": "Intergovernmental revenues (state and federal aid)", "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)" }, "groups_note": "Surrounding towns = The towns sharing a land border with Cromwell; DRG D = The official 2006 CT SDE District Reference Group this town belongs to. 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