Status
active
Date
September 24, 2026
Methodology version
4

0009: Spending categories, revenue-source groups and property-tax scope

Context

METRIC-11 (property-tax revenue), METRIC-12 (account codes map to PRD §13 categories via versioned data), METRIC-13 (mapping scoped to methodology_version), METRIC-14 (category amounts sum to the documented total, residual explicit), CAT-04 (a neutral default category order) and PROF-04 (major revenue sources displayed) all depend on classification choices that change published figures. Per T-03-26 (03-SECURITY.md, applied identically in ADR-0008), a methodology choice that changes published numbers is never agent-chosen. 04-CONTEXT.md records the open questions as D-05 through D-10; 04-RESEARCH.md supplies the DFS Uniform Accounting System (UAS) Manual’s own verbatim text for every disputed range. This record measured every option on real Orange County and Jefferson County numbers (Task 1), and the maintainer decided Q1 through Q8 at Task 2’s checkpoint (gate="blocking-human"), exactly as ADR-0008 measured the Total Revenue options before its own maintainer decision.

All figures below are governmental-fund (fund_group == 'governmental') leaf amounts, computed with exact Python Decimal arithmetic (never floats) directly from pipeline.adapters.florida. parsers.edr_workbook.parse_workbook. Orange’s figures are re-derived from the same cached archive bytes data/parquet/expenditures.parquet and data/parquet/revenues.parquet were built from; Jefferson’s and Dixie’s are parsed on demand from the archive via collectors.cache.fill_cache, since neither government is in publish_scope. Covered fiscal years come from data/audit/coverage-status.csv, never a literal.

Decision

Every subsection below states the option the maintainer chose. The rejected alternatives for every question, with their counter-arguments, are recorded under “Considered Options” in Rationale — never repeated here as if they were also in effect.

Q1 — Account code 517 (Debt Service Payments)

Chosen: its own “Debt service” category (debt_service), matching PRD §13’s minimum category list. Orange’s 517 ranges from $23,309,250.00 (FY2024) to $134,342,341.00 (FY2020), and is shown as a visible, separately-identifiable line every year regardless of which other codes join it (Q4).

Q2 — The 53x Physical Environment family

Chosen: its own “Physical Environment” category (physical_environment), matching the UAS manual’s own heading and PRD §13’s “other material categories” clause. Orange’s 53x ranges from $81,727,569.00 (FY2015) to $155,369,863.00 (FY2024).

Chosen: its own “Court-related” category (court_related), matching the manual’s own heading (“6xx.xx — COURT-RELATED EXPENDITURES”, continued at “7xx.xx — COURT-RELATED EXPENDITURES (CONTINUED)”) and its own icon distinguishing every code in this range. Orange’s 600–799 total runs from $58,125,861.00 (FY2015) to $90,103,954.00 (FY2024), of which the 711–716 sub-range (“General Court-Related Operations,” per D-08’s correction) runs $27,960,721.00 to $46,597,527.00.

Q4 — The non-excluded 58x/59x codes

Chosen: split per code (c). Code 585 (Payment to Refunded Bond Escrow Agent) joins Debt Service (debt_service), since Q1 chose its own Debt Service category and 585 pairs conceptually with 517 as debt-retirement-adjacent spending. Code 587 (Clerk of Court Excess Remittance) joins Court-related (court_related), since Q3 chose its own Court-related category and the manual itself flags 587 with a Court-Related Expenditure icon. Every other non-excluded code in this range found in the 67-county corpus — 583, 584, 589, 590, 591, 592, 593 — joins one “Other Uses and Non-Operating” category (other_uses_non_operating), matching EDR’s own printed rollup label for the range as a whole.

Orange’s own file uses only three of these eleven possible codes across all ten years — 587 (materially, $4.2M–$12.1M annually), 590 and 591 (both $0.00 every year) — plus 593 appearing once (FY2017, $0.00). Codes 583, 584, 585, 589 and 592 never appear in Orange’s own expenditures file in any of the ten fiscal years; they are mapped from the corpus-wide universe found across all 67 counties (Task 3, D-02).

Q5 — Revenue-source grouping

Chosen: r1b — the UAS 2-digit families verbatim, except root 311 (Ad Valorem Taxes) becomes its own “Property taxes” row (property_taxes) and the rest of 31x becomes “Other taxes” (other_taxes) — still root-keyed, no dotted-code overrides. Property taxes are PRD §18’s own dedicated section and the single most-asked-about revenue figure; giving root 311 its own row costs nothing beyond a root-keyed split UAS already supports.

The full revenue-group assignment (root-keyed, corpus-wide, 56 roots found across all 67 counties’ revenue workbooks):

r2 (the PRD §17 taxonomy) was not chosen; it would have needed exact dotted-code overrides (335.18, 335.16) this record’s Rationale/Considered Options documents but does not adopt.

Q6 — Default category display order

Chosen: declared — the fixed UAS function-group numeric order, Residual last. A fixed structural order never changes from year to year regardless of which category happens to be largest or grew fastest that release, keeping the table’s row order stable across releases.

default_order_rule: declared (recorded in pipeline/categorize/vocabulary.json). The declared order (Residual always last) is:

Order Category id Label
1 general_government General Government
2 debt_service Debt Service
3 public_safety Public Safety
4 physical_environment Physical Environment
5 transportation Transportation
6 economic_environment Economic Environment
7 human_services Human Services
8 culture_recreation Culture / Recreation
9 other_uses_non_operating Other Uses and Non-Operating
10 court_related Court-Related
11 residual Residual

Q7 — Property-tax revenue scope

Chosen: confirm — governmental-fund root 311 (Ad Valorem Taxes) only, the same fund-group scope ADR-0001/ADR-0008 already use. Excludes the $77,481,361.00 component-unit 311 that first appears in Orange’s FY2024 file. A government-year with no reliable 311 figure publishes null with one of two reasons: no_data_reported when that government-year’s total governmental revenue leaf sum (all codes) is zero (Jefferson FY2018), or not_separately_reported when that total is non-zero but root 311 is zero or absent (Dixie FY2023–FY2024, which reports 319.9 “Other General Taxes” instead of a separate 311 line).

property_tax_account_roots: 311 (recorded in pipeline/adapters/florida/category_map.json).

Q8 — Category and revenue-group IDs and labels

Chosen: accept as proposed. The final ID set, resolved by Q1–Q5’s chosen options above:

Expenditure category IDs:

id label
general_government General Government
debt_service Debt Service
public_safety Public Safety
physical_environment Physical Environment
transportation Transportation
economic_environment Economic Environment
human_services Human Services
culture_recreation Culture / Recreation
other_uses_non_operating Other Uses and Non-Operating
court_related Court-Related
residual Residual

Revenue group IDs:

id label
property_taxes Property Taxes
other_taxes Other Taxes
permits_fees_assessments Permits, Fees and Special Assessments
intergovernmental Intergovernmental
charges_for_services Charges for Services
fines_forfeits Judgments, Fines and Forfeits
miscellaneous Miscellaneous
other_sources Other Sources
proprietary_non_operating Proprietary Non-Operating Sources
residual Residual

Machine-readable lines

The four lines below are parsed directly by pipeline/tests/publish/test_methodology_v3.py and must equal, respectively: the excluded codes in category_map.json’s expenditures.account_codes, the excluded roots in revenues.account_roots, property_tax.account_roots, and pipeline/categorize/vocabulary.json’s default_order_rule.

excluded_account_codes: 581, 586, 588 excluded_account_roots: 381, 382 property_tax_account_roots: 311 default_order_rule: declared

Decision sign-off

Maintainer reply, recorded verbatim: “Accept recommended”

Interpretation (the option the maintainer selected from Task 2’s checkpoint options): option recommended — accept every recommendation in this record as originally proposed: Q1 a (517 → its own “Debt service” category), Q2 a (53x Physical Environment → its own category), Q3 a (600–799 Court-related → its own category), Q4 c (per-code split: 587 → court-related, 585 → debt service, the rest of the non-excluded 58x/59x → other uses and non-operating), Q5 r1b (UAS revenue families with root 311 as its own “Property taxes” row), Q6 declared (fixed UAS order, Residual last), Q7 confirm (governmental root 311 only; two-reason null rule), Q8 accept as proposed.

Recorded: 2026-09-24T21:51:55Z (Task 2 of 04-01-PLAN.md, checkpoint:decision, gate="blocking-human"). This reply is the sole authority for every classification, grouping, default order and property-tax scope recorded in this Decision section — T-03-26’s mitigation: no classification that changes a published figure is ever chosen by the agent alone. Task 3 wrote the vocabulary, the Florida mapping, and this record’s final Decision text only after this reply was received.

Rationale

Every choice above follows the same two-part reasoning the proposed record already stated: (1) prefer the DFS UAS Manual’s own structural boundaries where the manual gives a range its own numbered heading and icon (Q2, Q3, Q7); (2) where the manual and PRD §13/§17 disagree or the manual is silent (Q1, Q4, Q5), prefer the option that keeps every dollar visibly attributed to a specific, named code rather than folded into an undifferentiated bucket.

Considered Options

The following options were presented at Task 2’s checkpoint and not chosen:

Every 51x–59x, 600–799 and 31x–39x heading quoted

The complete verbatim UAS manual text for every disputed range is recorded in 04-RESEARCH.md Research Directive 1 and quoted in the Source Evidence section below; it is not repeated a third time here.

Source Evidence

DFS Uniform Accounting System Manual (2025 Edition, Revised 11/2025, Rule 69I-51.0012, F.A.C.)

Every quotation below is verbatim, fetched live from https://myfloridacfo.com/docs-sf/accounting-and-auditing-libraries/manuals/local-government/2024-2025-uas-manual.pdf on 2026-09-24 and independently re-confirmed against 04-RESEARCH.md’s own [VERIFIED] extract from the same session (HIGH confidence, cross-checked against ADR-0008’s own prior 38x/39x quotes for the same edition):

517.00 DEBT SERVICE PAYMENTS: “Debt Service Payments should be used to account for the accumulation of resources for, and the payment of, general long-term debt principal and interest. This would include payments on bonds as well as payments to banks and other financing sources. NOTE: This account code must be used with an object code from the 70 series.” — filed under 51x GENERAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES (NOT-COURT RELATED); the manual gives 5xx no separate “Debt Service” heading of its own anywhere.

53x PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: “Cost of services provided for the primary purpose of achieving a satisfactory living environment by controlling and utilizing elements of the environment.”

6xx.xx — COURT-RELATED EXPENDITURES (continued at 7xx.xx — COURT-RELATED EXPENDITURES (CONTINUED)). Sub-ranges include 71x General Court Related Operations (711 Courthouse Security, 712 Courthouse Facilities, 713 Information Systems, 714 Public Law Library, 715 Legal Aid, 716 Clerk of Court Related Technology) — confirming ADR-0008’s D-08 correction that 711–716 are General Court-Related Operations, never Debt Service.

587.00 Clerk of Court Excess Remittance: “This account shall be used by Clerks of the Court for any remaining allotment from the Justice Administrative Commission that was not spent and was remitted to the Department of Revenue.” (flagged by the manual’s own Court-Related Expenditure icon.)

31x GENERAL GOVERNMENT TAXES / 311 Ad-Valorem Taxes: “311.000 AD VALOREM TAXES — Property taxes computed as a percentage of the Fair Market value of locally assessed real estate, and tangible personal property less any exclusions, differentials, exemptions and credits and expressed in mills. Ad Valorem taxes are recorded ‘net’ of discounts, penalties and interest.”

33x INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES, 335.1xx General Government: 335.16 “State Shared Revenues — General Government — Distribution of Sales and Use Taxes to Counties”; 335.18 “State Shared Revenues — General Government — Local Government Half-Cent Sales Tax Program” — both filed by the manual under Intergovernmental Revenues, not under 31x Taxes, despite naming “Sales Tax” in their own titles.

The complete verbatim text for every 51x–59x, 600–799 and 31x–39x heading (including 58x/59x per-code text for 583–593 and 381–393) is already recorded in 04-RESEARCH.md Research Directive 1 and ADR-0008’s own Rationale table; it is not repeated here in full to avoid duplicating an already-committed, dated record — both are cited by path so a reader can verify the exact wording.

Orange County ten-year expenditure family table (FY2015–FY2024, governmental funds only)

Source: data/parquet/expenditures.parquet cross-checked against a fresh parse_workbook re-parse of data/raw/fl-edr/orange/expenditures/orangecountyexpenditures.xlsx this session. Every row foots to that year’s own reported governmental total — the same oracle data/audit/reconciliation-orange.csv and ADR-0001’s own evidence table already prove.

FY 51x excl. 517 517 (Debt Service Payments) 52x Public Safety 53x Physical Environment 54x Transportation 55x Economic Environment 56x Human Services 57x Culture/Recreation 58x/59x non-excluded 600–799 (of which 711–716) Excluded {581,586,588} Families + excluded sum Reported total Foots to reported total
2015 $187,548,725.00 $40,789,181.00 $535,158,763.00 $81,727,569.00 $197,005,675.00 $37,450,294.00 $168,770,423.00 $36,536,369.00 $4,358,039.00 $58,125,861.00 ($27,960,721.00) $390,818,902.00 $1,738,289,801.00 $1,738,289,801.00 yes
2016 $198,256,234.00 $72,037,885.00 $569,807,371.00 $96,594,385.00 $205,491,007.00 $38,423,998.00 $170,147,798.00 $41,760,021.00 $4,911,780.00 $57,054,440.00 ($28,490,082.00) $461,126,309.00 $1,915,611,228.00 $1,915,611,228.00 yes
2017 $215,316,638.00 $40,383,597.00 $596,839,388.00 $76,011,162.00 $207,831,330.00 $37,376,514.00 $199,702,908.00 $49,784,021.00 $4,162,482.00 $55,453,540.00 ($27,237,080.00) $453,582,248.00 $1,936,443,828.00 $1,936,443,828.00 yes
2018 $224,971,532.00 $35,265,647.00 $673,719,362.00 $82,480,524.00 $215,719,439.00 $40,619,420.00 $197,187,144.00 $45,631,194.00 $7,556,480.00 $56,232,107.00 ($28,580,976.00) $465,942,765.00 $2,045,325,614.00 $2,045,325,614.00 yes
2019 $239,978,893.00 $37,745,278.00 $689,379,953.00 $83,423,416.00 $223,741,827.00 $44,916,306.00 $194,682,303.00 $49,205,457.00 $7,704,538.00 $58,034,186.00 ($29,139,225.00) $474,835,713.00 $2,103,647,870.00 $2,103,647,870.00 yes
2020 $268,028,197.00 $134,342,341.00 $739,161,145.00 $86,854,731.00 $245,783,263.00 $48,389,413.00 $335,419,266.00 $51,620,139.00 $7,251,225.00 $58,649,133.00 ($29,242,274.00) $454,968,309.00 $2,430,467,162.00 $2,430,467,162.00 yes
2021 $584,039,708.00 $29,721,006.00 $796,294,811.00 $86,919,033.00 $245,823,732.00 $59,778,216.00 $437,914,017.00 $55,098,953.00 $11,577,470.00 $74,080,340.00 ($41,657,040.00) $486,387,169.00 $2,867,634,455.00 $2,867,634,455.00 yes
2022 $733,443,330.00 $29,716,001.00 $835,629,250.00 $94,703,276.00 $235,970,231.00 $63,899,853.00 $391,182,086.00 $56,500,138.00 $7,118,441.00 $74,577,260.00 ($42,938,781.00) $632,999,735.00 $3,155,739,601.00 $3,155,739,601.00 yes
2023 $573,292,705.00 $25,449,210.00 $945,833,887.00 $111,176,964.00 $267,802,835.00 $70,885,094.00 $484,220,072.00 $67,567,307.00 $12,083,349.00 $75,598,652.00 ($44,291,774.00) $686,591,418.00 $3,320,501,493.00 $3,320,501,493.00 yes
2024 $624,125,562.00 $23,309,250.00 $1,029,871,087.00 $155,369,863.00 $394,206,947.00 $75,479,534.00 $500,246,251.00 $76,191,104.00 $10,224,201.00 $90,103,954.00 ($46,597,527.00) $599,097,320.00 $3,578,225,073.00 $3,578,225,073.00 yes

Jefferson County expenditure family table (first/2017/2018/2019/last covered years)

Source: parsed on demand this session via collectors.cache.fill_cache and parse_workbook against data/raw/fl-edr/jefferson/expenditures/jeffersoncountyexpenditures.xlsx, restricted to the fiscal years data/audit/coverage-status.csv marks present for US-FL-COUNTY-JEFFERSON. FY2018 is a whole-sheet zero, not tabulated as real spending — confirmed directly: every leaf account row in every fund group of both series is a literal $0.00 for FY2018.

FY 51x excl. 517 517 52x 53x 54x 55x 56x 57x 58x/59x non-excluded 600–799 (711–716) Excluded {581,586,588} Sum Reported Foots
2015 $3,600,996.00 $570,146.00 $10,541,936.00 $2,361,078.00 $2,721,835.00 $520,513.00 $352,309.00 $587,067.00 $0.00 $699,685.00 ($0.00) $5,399,546.00 $27,355,111.00 $27,355,111.00 yes
2017 $3,202,434.00 $679,817.00 $9,711,417.00 $1,887,775.00 $2,321,000.00 $896,128.00 $378,047.00 $1,613,703.00 $0.00 $647,266.00 ($0.00) $8,256,305.00 $29,593,892.00 $29,593,892.00 yes
2018 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 ($0.00) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 yes (whole-sheet zero, see note)
2019 $3,551,907.00 $115,621.00 $10,018,389.00 $2,742,302.00 $6,921,220.00 $729,516.00 $177,203.00 $1,102,088.00 $0.00 $947,021.00 ($0.00) $9,222,144.00 $35,527,411.00 $35,527,411.00 yes
2024 $7,252,397.00 $0.00 $17,931,187.00 $2,643,424.00 $6,729,902.00 $278,604.00 $108,655.00 $982,867.00 $0.00 $569,870.00 ($0.00) $6,367,640.00 $42,864,546.00 $42,864,546.00 yes

Revenue evidence

The Orange and Jefferson revenue family tables and the specific 311/335.16/335.18/383–386 code tables, and the Q7 evidence (Orange 311 series, the excluded FY2024 component-unit 311, and the Dixie FY2020–FY2024 311/319.9 comparison) are unchanged from Task 1’s measurement and are preserved verbatim below.

Orange revenue family sums (root-keyed 2-digit families), all ten fiscal years:

FY 31x Taxes 32x Permits/Fees/Assessments 33x Intergovernmental 34x Charges for Services 35x Fines/Forfeits 36x Miscellaneous 38x Other Sources 39x Proprietary Non-Op. Reported total Foots
2015 $706,443,754.00 $111,530,709.00 $300,767,902.00 $193,955,542.00 $16,791,223.00 $28,737,929.00 $412,032,909.00 $0.00 $1,770,259,968.00 yes
2016 $770,381,166.00 $140,513,668.00 $307,226,053.00 $205,792,727.00 $17,769,817.00 $31,805,473.00 $513,286,325.00 $0.00 $1,986,775,229.00 yes
2017 $827,373,395.00 $158,125,572.00 $321,125,616.00 $214,697,037.00 $15,800,647.00 $26,896,390.00 $464,017,084.00 $0.00 $2,028,035,741.00 yes
2018 $893,371,011.00 $165,527,671.00 $347,158,420.00 $229,819,884.00 $16,864,229.00 $41,711,026.00 $477,783,767.00 $0.00 $2,172,236,008.00 yes
2019 $971,994,349.00 $164,534,187.00 $350,557,657.00 $242,765,606.00 $16,603,332.00 $75,700,011.00 $486,942,647.00 $0.00 $2,309,097,789.00 yes
2020 $1,048,800,613.00 $143,882,874.00 $459,052,178.00 $243,929,540.00 $12,637,468.00 $62,407,352.00 $573,014,177.00 $0.00 $2,543,724,202.00 yes
2021 $1,127,250,056.00 $297,671,715.00 $504,439,920.00 $583,177,003.00 $15,687,776.00 $32,117,597.00 $499,396,801.00 $0.00 $3,059,740,868.00 yes
2022 $1,184,653,031.00 $304,094,899.00 $504,475,936.00 $633,947,489.00 $17,316,868.00 $6,759,890.00 $739,163,237.00 $0.00 $3,390,411,350.00 yes
2023 $1,308,115,655.00 $384,910,602.00 $529,032,354.00 $542,268,913.00 $17,047,793.00 $146,952,997.00 $700,767,976.00 $0.00 $3,629,096,290.00 yes
2024 $1,451,653,186.00 $365,430,980.00 $551,930,260.00 $590,531,221.00 $18,504,009.00 $220,094,611.00 $613,063,759.00 $0.00 $3,811,208,026.00 yes

Jefferson revenue family sums, first/17/18/19/last covered years:

FY 31x 32x 33x 34x 35x 36x 38x 39x Reported Foots
2015 $8,882,928.00 $143,179.00 $6,187,969.00 $3,871,619.00 $204,755.00 $389,325.00 $5,831,084.00 $0.00 $25,510,859.00 yes
2017 $7,863,282.00 $170,449.00 $7,701,362.00 $3,725,673.00 $136,750.00 $192,445.00 $8,783,729.00 $0.00 $28,573,690.00 yes
2018 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 yes (whole-sheet zero)
2019 $7,489,627.00 $271,241.00 $6,661,752.00 $5,237,288.00 $483,837.00 $777,270.00 $11,761,075.00 $0.00 $32,682,090.00 yes
2024 $11,844,368.00 $255,272.00 $10,124,699.00 $5,278,234.00 $580,522.00 $1,331,081.00 $15,875,286.00 $0.00 $45,289,462.00 yes

The specific codes named above, Orange, all ten fiscal years:

FY 311 (Ad Valorem) 335.16 (Sales/Use Tax Distribution) 335.18 (Half-Cent Sales Tax) 383 (Lease/Installment Proceeds) 384 (Debt Proceeds) 385 (Refunding Bond Proceeds) 386 (Intragov. Transfer, D-08)
2015 $583,818,181.00 $446,500.00 $160,187,901.00 $6,512,240.00 $5,465,000.00 $0.00 $0.00
2016 $645,409,628.00 $446,500.00 $166,337,860.00 $12,271,169.00 $0.00 $30,110,000.00 $0.00
2017 $701,828,655.00 $446,500.00 $174,610,976.00 $181,569.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
2018 $765,716,433.00 $446,500.00 $190,487,596.00 $157,799.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
2019 $839,572,459.00 $446,500.00 $197,116,992.00 $85,742.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
2020 $916,712,015.00 $446,500.00 $154,570,577.00 $141,648.00 $0.00 $103,805,000.00 $0.00
2021 $992,267,636.00 $446,500.00 $177,710,045.00 $209,632.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
2022 $1,034,868,721.00 $446,500.00 $236,196,255.00 $94,353,614.00 $0.00 $0.00 -$1,190,112.00
2023 $1,163,910,792.00 $446,500.00 $250,836,882.00 $2,249,912.00 $0.00 $0.00 -$1,373,354.00
2024 $1,299,236,169.00 $446,500.00 $244,627,750.00 $2,318,573.00 $0.00 $0.00 -$2,252,132.00

The same codes, Jefferson, first/17/18/19/last covered years:

FY 311 (Ad Valorem) 335.18 (Half-Cent Sales Tax)
2015 $4,869,160.00 $1,062,317.00
2017 $3,998,397.00 $1,244,490.00
2018 $0.00 $0.00
2019 $4,322,745.00 $985,522.00
2024 $7,490,778.00 $1,869,288.00

Q7: Orange governmental root 311, all ten fiscal years, plus the excluded FY2024 component-unit 311:

FY Governmental 311
2015 $583,818,181.00
2016 $645,409,628.00
2017 $701,828,655.00
2018 $765,716,433.00
2019 $839,572,459.00
2020 $916,712,015.00
2021 $992,267,636.00
2022 $1,034,868,721.00
2023 $1,163,910,792.00
2024 $1,299,236,169.00
2024 (component_unit fund group, excluded under confirm) $77,481,361.00

Jefferson FY2018 (no_data_reported): every leaf account row in every fund group, both series, is a literal $0.00 for FY2018 — not just root 311. Jefferson’s FY2017 total governmental revenue was $28,573,690.00 and FY2019 was $32,682,090.00 — FY2018 sits between two normal years with real, non-zero 311 and 335.18 figures, which is why this is classified no_data_reported (the whole government-year), never not_separately_reported.

Dixie FY2023–FY2024 (not_separately_reported): root 311 disappears from Dixie’s revenue sheet in FY2023 and FY2024 (present at $7,558,177.00 as recently as FY2022), while a single rollup code, 319.9 “Other General Taxes,” appears at $11,009,526.00 (FY2023) and $12,156,428.00 (FY2024) — both years’ reported governmental totals are non-zero and growing normally ($41.3M FY2022 → $52.8M FY2024), so this is a reporting-granularity collapse, not a government-year with no data:

FY 311 (Ad Valorem, governmental) 319.9 (Other General Taxes rollup) Reported governmental total
2020 $6,855,660.00 $0.00 $27,340,229.00
2021 $7,271,186.00 $0.00 $34,958,556.00
2022 $7,558,177.00 $0.00 $41,330,737.00
2023 $0.00 $11,009,526.00 $50,386,376.00
2024 $0.00 $12,156,428.00 $52,825,339.00

Informational finding (D-08, not a question)

ADR-0008 states that account code 386 “never appears in any of the 67 counties’ revenue files, by the manual’s own design” and “carries zero dollar consequence either way.” Orange’s own file does report non-zero, negative 386.x amounts starting FY2022: 386.4 at $-1,190,112.00 (FY2022), $-1,373,354.00 (FY2023), $-1,379,991.00 (FY2024); plus 386.7 at $-851,290.00 and 386.8 at $-20,851.00 in FY2024 (root 386 total: $-2,252,132.00 in FY2024). It also does not appear alone: Task 3’s exhaustive corpus-wide scan (account_codes_in_workbook across all 67 counties’ revenue workbooks) found dotted codes under every one of roots 386, 387, 388 and 389 present in the corpus — none of which appears in Orange’s own file except 386. This does not reopen D-08’s Option A decision (381/382 excluded) — it is stated here, and corrected in ADR-0008’s own Revision, so the maintainer’s informed decision is on the public record. Under this record’s Q5 grouping, roots 386–389 are grouped into other_sources alongside 383–385, since all remain inside Total Revenue under ADR-0008 Option A.

Methodology Version

This decision took effect in methodology_version: 3. It supersedes nothing — this is the first record of the category, revenue-group, default-order and property-tax-scope decisions. active_methodology_version returned 2 while this record’s status was proposed; it now returns 3 following the maintainer’s recorded Task 2 decision (Decision sign-off, above) and Task 3’s coordinated bump across every other active decision record.

Revision (2026-09-24)

Same-day activation record, for the same visible-diff discipline every other active record in this directory carries: Task 1 wrote this record as status: proposed with all eight questions quantified and no option chosen; Task 2 (checkpoint:decision, gate="blocking-human") obtained the maintainer’s reply the same date; Task 3 rewrote the Decision section to the chosen options only, moved every rejected alternative into a “Considered Options” subsection under Rationale, added the machine-readable lines, the vocabulary and mapping tables, and the Decision sign-off section quoting the reply verbatim, and flipped status to active at methodology_version: 3 — all recorded here as one dated, diffable event. This revision recorded by Task 3, 04-01-PLAN.md.

Revision (2026-09-25)

This revision supersedes methodology_version: 3 with methodology_version: 4 (ADR-0010, 05-01-PLAN.md). The decision recorded above is carried forward unchanged into methodology_version 4; the changes this version-4 coordinated bump makes are recorded in 0010-statewide-publication-rules.md. This revision recorded by Task 3, 05-01-PLAN.md.