About this page
A resident-built look at the Vista Ridge Metropolitan District's money: where the 47 mills go, how actual spending compared with each year's adopted budget, and how revenue and costs have moved from 2022 to the 2026 budget. It is meant to help residents prepare for the District's 2027 budget hearing.
Open the Finances dashboard for the charts and the line-by-line explorer: filter by fund, year, revenue or spending, show only the lines that missed their budget by at least $10,000 and 10%, and click any line to see every year with a link to the page it came from. The "Toward the 2027 budget" section at the end is resident analysis, not the District's.
Every figure comes from the District's own documents in Budgets & audits:
- 2024, 2025 and 2026 Budget Resolutions. Each one shows the prior year's actual, the current year's estimate and the next year's adopted budget.
- 2025 Audit. Audited 2025 actuals, the budget-to-actual schedules for every fund, the bond schedule to maturity and the assessed value and mill levy history.
Data files
vrmd-budget-vs-actual.csv: one row per budget line, 2022 to 2026 side by side, with the 2024 and 2025 variances (positive means favorable: revenue above budget or spending below it).vrmd-finances.csv: the same figures in long format, each with the document and page it came from.vrmd-mill-levy.csv,vrmd-assessed-value.csv,vrmd-debt-schedule.csv: levy history, assessed value by property class, and the Series 2016A bond payments through 2040.