City spending: the payables lists

From the city's published payables lists, not official accounting. How these figures are built

Every bill the council approved on its payables list ("Expense Approval Report"), 2021 to today plus one 2018 claims report, read line by line from the published lists. Pick a year, a payee, a fund or a department to filter. From revenue to payee: cash-flow chart.

The lists in the archive add up to $66,857,922, a lower bound, in 19,909 line items paid to 818 payees. 130 of the 135 lists add up to their printed total.

Spending by year

No payables lists in the archive for 2019, 2020: those years are blank, not zero. 2018 is partial (2 lists). Coverage below 100% (parsed lines ÷ printed totals): 2021 93%. Some scanned lists are missing pages or have OCR misreadings.

Table: spending by year
Payables total by year
YearPaidLinesListsCoverage
2026 (so far)$24,389,2954,15421100%
2025$18,620,0854,22025100%
2024$8,828,0013,69324100%
2023$5,947,9803,37023100%
2022$4,008,4961,69415100%
2021$4,828,4482,6642593% lower bound
2020No lists in the archive
2019No lists in the archive
2018 (partial: 2 lists)$235,6171142100%
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Payee: LL PELLING

LL PELLING business

$308,403 in 32 lines, Jan 5, 2021 to Aug 18, 2026, the payee's page

By year: 2021 $45,237; 2022 $33,020; 2023 $2,116; 2024 $49,412; 2025 $91,154; 2026 $87,464

Projects: Original Town Urbanization – Phase One (contractor), Original Town Urbanization – Phase Three (paid on project), Original Town Urbanization – Phase Two (paid on project), Soccer Field Parking Lot Expansion (contractor)

Top descriptions: REMOVALS, SUPPLEMENTAL STONE, 5" HMA $67k; FD PARKING LOT $64k; FIRE DEPARTMENT PAVING $41k; FIRE STATION PAVING $32k; S PARK RD $26k; HOTMIX - S PARK RD & 340TH… $21k; ROAD REPAIRS $21k; RESTRIPING ROADS $18k

Top payees (matching lines)

Top payees
PayeePaidBar, to scale
LL PELLING$49,412

All payees (JSON)

By fund

By department

Paid by department
DepartmentPaidBar, to scale
210 Streets (road use tax)$2,436,831
810 Water utility$2,242,897
815 Sewer utility$927,760
150 Fire department$469,469
950 ARPA federal grant$463,392
841 Garbage collection$360,666
110 Police protection (county contract)$334,596
430 Parks$296,533
660 Insurance$159,688
840 Recycling$126,427
610 Mayor$126,014
520 Economic development$124,824
170 Building and inspections$111,694
620 Clerk$81,147
230 Street lighting$80,339
151 Fire department (training and gear)$64,638
410 Library$57,757
434 Soccer fields$55,261
640 Legal and publishing$54,567
650 City hall and general government$41,948
580 Development engineering (Tiffin / Ridgewood)$39,891
431 Recreation$31,440
597 Development engineering (Tiffin Heights)$29,910
588 Development engineering (Park Place)$21,182
160 Emergency medical services$16,569
699 Regional dues (MPO$13,210
499 Community events$12,699
582 Development engineering (Andersen)$11,693
240 Traffic signals$4,760
199 Other public safety (sirens$4,365
585 Development engineering (Prairie)$4,123
651 Payments to other agencies$4,114
865 Storm water$3,573
130 Emergency management$3,384
630 Elections$2,247
586 Development engineering (80/380)$1,611
190 Animal control$1,170
714 Debt service (2018A GO bonds)$900
713 Debt service (2017 GO bonds)$750
510 Community development projects$639
711 Debt service (2020 GO bonds)$600
712 Debt service (2021 GO bonds)$600
715 Debt service (2019 GO bonds)$600
716 Debt service (2021/2022 bonds)$600
577 Development engineering (Shamrock)$450
717 Debt service (2024 GO bonds)$300
131 Warning sirens$175

Line items 4 lines, $49,412

Line items, filtered
DatePayeeDescription AccountAmountSource
Oct 15, 2024LL PELLING RESTRIPING ROADS 110-210-6417 $18,009.00 p. 3: LL PELLING, 2024-10-15 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Sep 17, 2024LL PELLING HOTMIX 110-210-6417 $210.49 p. 4: LL PELLING, 2024-09-17 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Sep 17, 2024LL PELLING COLD MIX PATCHING 001-210-6515 $5,624.95 p. 3: LL PELLING, 2024-09-17 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Sep 3, 2024LL PELLING S PARK RD 001-210-6515 $25,568.00 p. 1: LL PELLING, 2024-09-03 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

City staff and official reimbursements

Reimbursements the council approved on the payables lists for city employees and officials: mileage, travel and conferences, training and licenses, uniforms and gear, phones and supplies they paid for. Names are not shown; each line gives its purpose and links to the published list. Wages and payroll are not on the payables lists. $57,291.14 on 220 lines. Shown as one payee, City employee (reimbursement).

By year

Reimbursements by year
YearPaidLines
2018$13.661
2021$3,548.6225
2022$2,978.4012
2023$5,898.8830
2024$8,906.5647
2025$23,480.0255
2026$12,465.0050

By purpose

Reimbursements by purpose
PurposePaid
Training, tuition, certification and licenses$28,480.96
Mileage$19,552.18
Travel, meals and conferences$3,300.85
Other expense reimbursement$2,640.58
Uniforms, boots and safety gear$1,579.34
Supplies and purchases$1,102.96
Medical or wellness (details withheld)$634.27

By department

Reimbursements by department
DepartmentPaid
151 Fire department (training and gear)$26,514.22
650 City hall and general government$18,416.67
150 Fire department$4,582.67
160 Emergency medical services$3,742.01
810 Water utility$1,040.94
431 Recreation$720.25
610 Mayor$680.68
520 Economic development$406.20
410 Library$404.00
430 Parks$354.27
815 Sewer utility$317.10
210 Streets (road use tax)$82.49
170 Building and inspections$15.98
(no account)$13.66

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Resident programs and rebates

Rebates and incentives the city paid residents under its own programs, from the payables lists. Residents' names are never shown: each payment is listed as "Individual (refund/reimbursement)" with its program. Refunds and deposits are not programs and are not counted here.

Resident programs and rebates
ProgramPaymentsPaidBy yearLines
SQR rebates
City of Tiffin Soil Quality Restoration rebate (SRF sponsored project); fund 332
92$102,298.17 2021: 88; $96,709.31
2022: 4; $5,588.86
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Account numbers are fund-department-object. Fund names come from the Treasurer's reports and the lists; department names are read from the lists' account summaries. Data-quality report (JSON).

About these figures
Figures are parsed from the payables lists, Treasurer's reports, receipts, pay applications and change orders the City of Tiffin published with its council agendas. They are not official accounting records. Every number links to the page it was read from; where a document's parsed lines do not add up to its printed total (coverage below 100%), the parsed amounts are a lower bound.
Payments to private individuals (refunds, deposits, reimbursements, coaches and officials) are shown as one payee, "Individual (refund/reimbursement)", without names; reimbursements to city staff and officials (mileage, travel, training, uniforms …) are shown as "City employee (reimbursement)" with their purpose; the source page is still linked.

Data last updated November 7, 2026. Built from the archive's documents; see how the data is built.