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Texas State Expenditures by County 2010

Introduction

Texas State Expenditures by County 2010 continues the annual reporting of state agency expenditures by county begun in 1991, when the General Appropriations Act first required the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts to report it.

Section I provides a summary of net expenditures by county for major spending categories; a summary and ranking of net expenditures by county; and a table of detailed state expenditures by county. Section II includes similar information by council of governments region. In both sections, some expenditures are listed as “unallocable” to Texas counties. Unallocable expenditures include payments to out-of-state and out-of-country vendors and payments that cannot be assigned to a specific Texas county.

This report lists state agencies under each county and planning region in numerical order by an assigned agency code. For reference, this report includes an alphabetical list of state agencies in Section I-A. Section II-A starts with a map of counties in Texas, followed by a list of counties by state planning region.

This report includes only net expenditures as reflected in the Uniform Statewide Accounting System (USAS). Net expenditures include purchases of goods and services made from accounts held by the Comptroller of Public Accounts’ Treasury Operations, those in the state’s General Revenue Fund, all special funds and all trust funds. This report does not include funds maintained outside the Treasury Operations accounting system or funds held by universities in local banks. Net expenditures in this report exclude purchases of investments; some payments from trust or suspense accounts, such as allocations of local sales tax to cities, counties and transit authorities; benefit payments to retired teachers and state employees; and all types of interfund transfers and repayment of debt principal.

This report presents net expenditures made from a cash accounting system during fiscal 2010, from Sept. 1, 2009, to Aug. 31, 2010. Accrued expenses and encumbrances to counties continue to improve with each report period; therefore the data contained in this report may not be consistent with data from reports from prior years.

In several cases, an expenditure category may include a negative amount. This may indicate a payment made in a previous fiscal year that has been partially or wholly refunded or may reflect a minor processing error that was corrected. Due to rounding, some category totals listed in the Introduction’s Major Spending Categories table may not match totals in the Summary of County Expenditures.