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An independent project organizing public records from the City of Nowthen, Minnesota. Not an official city site. Documents and votes are sourced from cityofnowthen.gov; interpretations are AI-extracted and may need correction.

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City of Nowthen · Money

The city budget, traced to its sources

Where the money came from, what it paid for, who voted for it — every number parsed straight out of the adopted-budget PDFs and linked back to the page it appears on.

2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021

Where the money came from

$3,109,821 budgeted across all city funds for 2026.

Tax LevyVerified ✓$2,332,789

Intergovernmental RevenueVerified ✓$202,410

Special AssessmentsVerified ✓$168,007

Licenses & PermitsVerified ✓$133,825

Charges for ServicesVerified ✓$124,740

Interest EarningsVerified ✓$98,350

MiscellaneousVerified ✓$40,000

Fines & ForfeitsVerified ✓$9,700

The funds it sat in

Cities keep money in separate funds with separate rules — road money can't quietly become office money.

General Fund

$2,505,765

Verified ✓

Debt Service

$488,413

Verified ✓

Capital Improvements & Equipment

$95,327

Verified ✓

Adopted

$70,645

Verified ✓

What it paid for

Each line opens the full trail: the budget lines, the council votes that approved the spending, the bills that were paid, and the PDF pages that prove it.

Sheriff's Contract1 lineVerified ✓$527,975→Public Works4 linesVerified ✓$484,725→Office Administration4 linesVerified ✓$352,770→Fire Management4 linesVerified ✓$327,700→General Government/Buildings5 linesVerified ✓$220,715→Building Inspection1 lineVerified ✓$125,000→Legal2 linesVerified ✓$102,000→Planning and Zoning2 linesVerified ✓$94,080→Finance and Assessing3 linesVerified ✓$76,910→Park Areas4 linesVerified ✓$62,645→Engineering1 lineVerified ✓$53,000→Mayor Council2 linesVerified ✓$35,695→Elections3 linesVerified ✓$18,615→URRWMO1 lineVerified ✓$11,935→Unallocated1 lineVerified ✓$10,000→Nowthen Farmers Market1 lineVerified ✓$2,000→

All 2026 numbers above have been reviewed against the source PDFs.