DLS Databank Reports

The Community Snapshot provides numerous data points in one report. Data includes socioeconomics, property taxes and property values, receivables, revenues, expenditures, reserves, debt and bond ratings.

Report showing all communities that have adopted the Community Preservation Act (CPA), including year adopted, percent adopted and exemptions.

This Community Comparison Report enables you to find similar communities for comparative purposes based on factors such as socioeconomics, property taxes and property values, receivables, revenues, expenditures, reserves, debt and bond ratings.

This report shows the total commercial, industrial and personal property (CIP) value and the percentages the CIP and residential/open represents of the total value, the Maximum allowable CIP shift, selected residential factor and choosen shift for a municipality based on the options selected when completing the tax rate and other local assessment forms.

Named for the cherry-colored paper on which it was originally printed, the Cherry Sheet is the official notification from the Commissioner of Revenue of the upcoming fiscal year's state aid and assessments to cities, towns, and regional school districts. The purpose of the Cherry Sheet is to ensure that local budgets reflect realistic estimates of the amount of revenue a municipality and regional school district will actually receive from the state during the upcoming year.

This report provides annual detailed Cherry Sheet information by program.

Free cash is a revenue source which results from the calculation, as of July 1, of a community's remaining, unrestricted funds from operations of the previous fiscal year based on the balance sheet as of June 30. Free cash is offset by property tax receivables and certain deficits and can be a negative number. (Annual balance sheet reporting certified by the Director of Accounts).

Capital projects represent financial resources that are used for the acquisition or constuction of major capital facilities, that involve projects extending over more than one year, and that are financed wholly or in part from bond issues, intergovernmental loans, private donations, or current revenues of more than one fund. The data is captured from the annual financical report (Schedule A - Part 4).

This report shows the votes at an election to temporarily increase the levy to fund a capital project or make a capital acqusition.

Provided by the Bureau of Local Assessment (BLA).