District Budget
Northwest Groundwater Management District 4
| Year | Budget | Land Charge | Water Charge |
| 2020 | $405,655 | $.05 | $.31 |
| 2019 | $530,455 | $.05 | $.4565 |
| 2018 | $457,515 | $.05 | $.37 |
| 2017 | $469,915 | $.05 | $.35 |
| 2016 | $496,397 | $.05 | $.418 |
| 2015 | $519,587 | $.05 | $.447 |
| 2014 | $637,382 | $.05 | $.495 |
| 2013 | $561,680 *3 *4 | $.05 | $.495 |
| 2012 | $490,770 *3 | $.05 | $.41 |
| 2011 | $569,125 *3 *4 | $.05 | $.504 |
| 2010 | $454,450 *3 | $.05 | $.37 |
| 2009 | $433,455 *3 | $.05 | $.3457 |
| 2008 | $438,965 *3 | $.05 | $.353 |
| 2007 | $411,952 *3 | $.05 | $.32 |
| 2006 | $434,250 *3 | $.05 | $.3466 |
| 2005 | $419,365 *3 | $.05 | $.33 |
| 2004 | $406,340 *3 | $.05 | $.315 |
| 2003 | $383,271 | $.05 | $.17 |
| 2002 | $471,540 | $.05 | $.057 |
| 2001 | $453,675 *2 | $.05 | $.37 |
| 2000 | $415,755 *2 | $.05 | $.3268 |
| 1999 | $416,055 *2 | $.05 | $.3268 |
| 1998 | $410,010 *2 | $.05 | $.3212 |
| 1997 | $460,210 *2 | $.05 | $.376 |
| 1996 | $337,434 | $.05 | $.376 |
| 1995 | $328,031 | $.045 | $.08 |
| 1994 | $212,220 | $.045 | $.082 |
| 1993 | $224,335 | $.05 | $.109 |
| 1992 | $224,335 | $.05 | $.1105 |
| 1991 | $212,416 | $.05 | $.0965 |
| 1990 | $213,560 | $.05 | $.0982 |
Footnotes:
*1: Figures are in US Dollars
*2: Budget includes an
additional $181,000.00 for the weather modification program
*3:
Budget includes an additional $.09 on the water user charge for the
Conservation Foundation
*4: Budget includes an additional $100,000 on
the water user charge for the purchase of an office building
Annual Budget Cycle
The proposed next year's operating budget is provided to the board for first look in January of the current year. A board approved, proposed budget, is next submitted to the district membership during the current year's annual meeting - in February. The membership consider the proposed budget and approves a working budget for public hearing later in the year - normally between May and August. Each years budget gets looked at 4 times before becoming final.
Financing Information
In order to obtain whatever budget is approved, the district applies
both a land charge and a water user assessment to the tax statements of
its eligible voters. KSA 82a-1030 is the statutory cite for this funding
authority. The land assessment is limited to a maximum of $.05 (5 cents)
per acre of land. The water user charge is limited to a maximum of $1.00
per acrefoot of water right held. The water user charge is assessed
against the full amount of the water right unless a verified claim of
less use is filed with the district by April 1 of the appropriate tax
year. In this case, the established water user charge is assessed
against the lesser amount actually used. In GMD 4, a meter reading is
required to claim less water use than the authorized amount. The board
may assess any water right a greater water user assessment than $1.00
per acrefoot, but not to exceed $1.50 per acrefoot, only if 50% or more
of its authorized place of use lies outside the district boundary.
The budgets listed above generally represent the amount of money that
district assessments have been established to bring in. This statement
does not apply to the 2002 and 2003 operating budgets which are unique
due to the process of returning the previously collected weather
modification program funds to the water users. Each budget when approved
has been higher than these figures by an amount equal to other,
non-assessment income sources such as grants, interest income, contract
income, etc. Because other income sources vary greatly from year to
year, we use the local assessment income as the expression of our local
budget which is most relevant from year to year.
Revised Budget Hearings
Every January, the board conducts a revised budget hearing in order to re-budget the previous year's carryover funds into the already approved current year's budget. This gives everyone one final look at the current year's budget. These hearings are publicly noticed per statute.
