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Smith County, Texas · run 2026-09-26T20:18:43.491Z

Does the tree add up?

10/10 ✓
Budgets are self-auditing: every total should equal the sum of its parts — accountants call that cross-footing. Line items must sum to category totals, categories to departments, departments to funds, funds to the ordinance's own grand total of $198,056,173 — to the dollar, no rounding. This page is the arithmetic receipt for the whole money trail. Any line that cannot be checked yet says so on its own citation page.
Cross-foots ✓
Checked lineStatedSum of partsResultDetail
Road & Bridge Fund $25,460,736 $25,460,736 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Juvenile General Fund $6,780,461 $6,780,461 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Capital Improvement Funds $24,232,599 $24,232,599 ✓ exact 5 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Ordinance grand total $198,056,173 $198,056,173 ✓ exact 6 top-level funds sum to the ordinance's stated total exactly.
Activity log hash chain — — ✓ exact Chain verified: 130 entries, head 716fd1d6dfbacce6…
Votes: no unlogged writes — — ✓ exact 35 store votes all present in the chain
Votes: final values match chain — — ✓ exact every store value equals its last chain event
Votes: chain↔store orphans explained — — ✓ exact no chain votes missing from the store (corrections accounted for)
Submissions: no unlogged writes — — ✓ exact 0 submissions all chained
Signatures: no unlogged writes — — ✓ exact 0 public signatures all chained