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: LOGAN CONTRACTOR SUPPLY

LOGAN CONTRACTOR SUPPLY business

$8,325 in 19 lines, Jul 16, 2024 to Oct 20, 2026, the payee's page

By year: 2024 $3,892; 2025 $1,369; 2026 $3,064

Top descriptions: 5 GALLON SEALER $1.3k; EQUIPMENT RENTAL $1.3k; SEALER/CURE $872; SAFETY EQUIPMENT $864; CONCRETE SUPPLIES $676; SAW BLADE $675; FLOOR SAW $632; 2 X4' SAFETY RED ADA PANELS $506

Top payees (matching lines)

Top payees
PayeePaidBar, to scale
LOGAN CONTRACTOR SUPPLY$3,064

All payees (JSON)

By fund

By department

Paid by department
DepartmentPaidBar, to scale
810 Water utility$9,677,175
430 Parks$7,108,288
210 Streets (road use tax)$3,944,565
110 Police protection (county contract)$696,193
815 Sewer utility$587,024
586 Development engineering (80/380)$370,981
841 Garbage collection$328,291
150 Fire department$289,322
660 Insurance$214,938
610 Mayor$196,317
840 Recycling$112,200
230 Street lighting$98,216
620 Clerk$90,007
520 Economic development$83,358
410 Library$73,789
650 City hall and general government$57,512
170 Building and inspections$55,673
151 Fire department (training and gear)$49,045
499 Community events$47,998
431 Recreation$44,500
582 Development engineering (Andersen)$39,136
640 Legal and publishing$33,218
588 Development engineering (Park Place)$30,928
460 Recreation programs$28,764
575 Development engineering (Homemakers)$22,929
000 Balance sheet (cash)$19,881
240 Traffic signals$16,930
699 Regional dues (MPO$13,441
580 Development engineering (Tiffin / Ridgewood)$10,626
160 Emergency medical services$9,779
597 Development engineering (Tiffin Heights)$8,274
865 Storm water$6,330
130 Emergency management$5,683
131 Warning sirens$3,641
651 Payments to other agencies$3,356
199 Other public safety (sirens$3,092
630 Elections$2,483
190 Animal control$912
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
717 Debt service (2024 GO bonds)$600
718 Debt service (2025 bonds)$600
714 Debt service (2018A GO bonds)$300
719 Debt service (2026 bonds)$300
713 Debt service (2017 GO bonds)$250
585 Development engineering (Prairie)$53

Line items 9 lines, $3,064

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.