{"resource":"money_assumptions","about":"The `money_assumptions` table, published whole. See /api/schema for its grain.","count":6,"caveats":[],"provenance":{"documents":[],"count":0},"rows":[{"assumption":"A restricted fund\u2019s spending goes to its own program","evidence":"It is what the fund exists for, and a revolving fund is bound by the vote that created it.","rests_on":"Every restricted edge above rests on this.","settled_by":"An expense report for the special revenue funds."},{"assumption":"`SCHRESSTIP` is a school resource officer stipend","evidence":"Read from the abbreviation, in the police department.","rests_on":"A $6,800 line. Immaterial, and still an inference.","settled_by":"The account\u2019s full name from MUNIS, which truncates at ten characters."},{"assumption":"The general-fund `SCHCOSTREI` line and fund 2640 are not the same money","evidence":"Nothing. They are similar magnitudes and we have not established either way.","rests_on":"**If they are the same money, a total that counts both double-counts $318,424.**","settled_by":"The town accountant, or a transfer record between the two."},{"assumption":"The district workbook total ties to the dept 300 appropriation","evidence":"They land 0.4% apart for FY2026.","rests_on":"Used to argue the $26m is the town\u2019s bill rather than a gross figure.","settled_by":"Whether the 0.4% is netting or simply that `settled` holds 252 lines where `proposed` holds 321."},{"assumption":"The pension assessment includes school non-teaching staff","evidence":"Standard Massachusetts practice: teachers in the state system, other municipal employees in the county system. **Our archive does not say this.**","rests_on":"The reason the pension is treated as a school cost at all.","settled_by":"The WRRS annual actuarial valuation, which reports by member unit."},{"assumption":"MSBA reimbursement stopped because a bond reached term","evidence":"Nothing. It is a guess that fits.","rests_on":"Explains $474,239 a year that arrived through FY2022 and is zero in FY2026.","settled_by":"The town\u2019s debt schedule, or the MSBA\u2019s own payment record."}],"columns":["assumption","evidence","rests_on","settled_by"],"source":"https://lunenburgbudgetproject.org/docs/data/money-assumptions.csv"}