Munetrix™ has been loaded with data for most of Michigan’s 1,800+ municipal governments for the years 2006 – 2008.
Additionally, the tool has been developed to permit the storage of budgeted and forecast data for forward-looking analysis for years 2009 and beyond.
Municipal governments who have purchased license agreements can update forecast and budget data for forward-looking, top-down planning.
The data and reports that are available to you vary depending on the filter you select.
For example, you can filter the 1,800 municipal governments by:
Additionally, the data represents two major areas of analysis:
One of the features of Munetrix is the ability to create a list of municipalities, referred to as favorites, with which to compare data.
A Municipal Government must purchase a license agreement in order to edit data and create a list of Favorites.
Overall
State Indicators Comparatives (Favorites in rows, years in columns, overall score in intersection)
By year
Efficiency costs per resident
Single Factor graphed over time
Financial Forecast
This graph displays General Fund Revenues and General Fund Expenditures in columns and overlays the Fund Balance as a line.
State Indicator Comparatives (Factor names in rows, years in columns, score at intersection)
Fiscal Indicator Score Card
This report is the detailed score sheet for one local unit of government for one year.
The top of the report displays the local unit's fiscal score (0 - 10).
The fiscal score is the sum of each of the nine factors identified in the right-most column of the report.
These reports are stored as an Adobe PDF file on the Michigan Department of Treasury website or available quickly from the Munetrix database.
How a community spends its money
This graph displays the community's expenditures in 10 expense categories compared to the "best-practice" benchmarks for each category.
The total cost in each category for the fiscal year selected is divided by the community's population for that fiscal year.
An unusually high or low expenditure in any one category is not necessarily inappropriate.
Additional research may need to be done to explain the discrepancy.
Municipal governments are stored in Munetrix using a hierarchical association referred to as a parent-child relationship.
For example, the parent of an individual city is the county in which the city resides, the parent for a county is one of Michigan’s 14 regional SPDRs, and the parent of the region is the state.
This hierarchical link aids in searching records and filtering reports and graphs.
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