DLS Databank Reports

File includes the DOR Income. EQV and Population that was used in a particular cherry sheet year for any formulae that use these components to determine aid or assessment. Includes Chapter 70 School Aid, County Tax, Mosquito Control, MBTA to name a few. (EQV Biennial Release, US Census, and DOR Income Tax Returns)

Displays the BOA & BLA municipality advisors.

This report shows the votes at an election of temporarily increase the levy to raise funds necessary to pay debt service costs for a particular project.

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).