Auditor Clarifies
Indiana Lottery Expenditures
As reported by the Peru Tribune: "Although Miami County receives a substantial amount of money from the Hoosier Lottery every year, those dollars do not actually go into the county General Fund for local leaders to use as they please.
"The question as to how lottery money is used
in Miami County was raised a few months ago at a
Miami County Council meeting when the wheel tax
was being discussed. Denver resident John Goble
presented an article from the Logansport Pharos-Tribune
that said Miami County had received $8.9 million
in lottery monies from the state.
"'But the article didn't mention that that
money given was to us over a 14-year period,' Miami
County Auditor Brenda Weaver explained.
"Miami County has received $8.9 million in
lottery monies from 1989 to 2003, according to the
Hoosier Lottery Web site. Of that, $756,384 went
to Build Indiana Fund local projects; $996,821 to
city and town police and fire pensions; $3,911,822
to the license plate excise tax reduction; $633,984
to the Indiana Technology Fund for schools; $272,079
to Local Road and Street; and $2,341,833 to local
schools as supplemental tuition support…"
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