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Monday, May 11, 2015

2013 General Fund State Revenues and Expenditures

County E2008 E2013 R2008 R2013 R13-E13 R08-E08 R13-R08 E13-E08 R08_R13% E08_E13%
King 3771.5 4281.4 6116.9 6575.2 2293.8 2345.4 458.3 509.9 7.0 11.9
Pierce 1826.7 1946.7 1457.3 1535.4 -411.3 -369.4 78.1 120.0 5.1 6.2
Snohomish 1414.6 1590.5 1435.8 1525.0 -65.5 21.2 89.2 175.9 5.8 11.1
Spokane 1177.3 1187.0 872.4 940.8 -246.2 -304.9 68.4 9.7 7.3 0.8
Clark 911.4 1067.3 655.6 697.8 -369.5 -255.8 42.2 155.9 6.0 14.6
Thurston 534.3 595.4 464.2 492.1 -103.3 -70.1 27.9 61.1 5.7 10.3
Whatcom 403.8 440.6 416.5 470.3 29.7 12.7 53.8 36.8 11.4 8.4
Kitsap 526.2 550.3 412.1 420.7 -129.6 -114.1 8.6 24.1 2.0 4.4
Benton 405.6 454.0 319.6 412.6 -41.4 -86.0 93.0 48.4 22.5 10.7

Top Ten WA Counties: State Revenues and Expenses for the General Fund ($millions). Only King and Whatcom county return more GF than they expense.  Eight of the top ten revenue counties run a deficit of $1.36B essentially 'paid for' by King County's $2.3B surplus revenue. King County generates more GF-S revenue than the next nine WA counties combined.

This piece examines one (big) part of the complicated picture of state and county revenues and expenditures.  Not all county revenues and expenditure cycle through the state. $15.8B GF-S  (General Fund - State) return to the state as revenues. Most counties receive more than their revenue to expend. The charts below (coupled with tables in the end notes) help us see which counties return more GF-S revenue than GF-S expenditures. In the series of pie charts below, we can see GF-S expenditures by category and the percentage the top counties expend for those categories. The second largest category ("All Other Agencies/Debt Service") is also the least granular.  Some of the agencies and funding included in "All Other Agencies/Debt Service" can be found in a list of 'GF-S Categories' in the end notes. The OFM link for this data is here. R Code for the charts is here. Click to enlarge charts.



Sunday, May 3, 2015

The Cosmos Review

"A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars—billions upon billions of stars."
-Carl Sagan
Weeks after it had opened, we finally wandered the whole family into Jamison Rogayan and Cinnamon Berg's new venture: The Cosmos Bistro. Because, our now vigourous three  and 1/2 year old boy runs our life, we all sat at the counter with him.  I had no idea that Jamison was a space and astronomy buff. It didn't occur to me that there would be a Star Wars Falcon in the top corner of the very high ceilinged, very spaciously remodeled bistro at 1151 North State Street in Bellingham, WA.