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Kew <br /> X600 <br /> Results <br /> A detailed breakdown of revenues sources is found in Appendix Table 1 . Total county <br /> revenues for 1997 - 98 were slightly more than $ 39 . 5 million Approximately 52 % of this money <br /> came frompropertytaxes . The largest other revenue sources were sales taxes ( 15 % ) and inter- <br /> governmental transfers from state and federal sources ( 18 % ) . <br /> Table 1 summarizes the overall breakdown of county expenditures for the 1997 -98 fiscal <br /> ' led information is found in Appendix Tables 2 and 3 . Overall expenditures for <br /> year. More deta <br /> million . Two departments — human services and education —each <br /> 1997 - 98 were just under $ 40 . 5 <br /> accounted for roughly one quarter of the total budget. In addition to expenditures out of the <br /> General Fund , there are three additional expenditure sources that account for about 15 % of the <br /> rise Funds related to solid waste management and water <br /> total budget. These include Enterp <br /> ' es • contributions to Special Revenue Funds (primarily supporting public safety functions ) ; <br /> utllitl P <br /> and a Capital Projects Fund that is exclusively devoted to public schools . <br /> Table ? summarizes revenues and expenditures by land use category . As noted earlier, twin <br /> Tab <br /> analyses were conducted — one allocating public schools and health expenditures directly <br /> attributable to the Latino population to the residential sector, the other allocating these <br /> expenditures to the commercial sector. In either event , the figures in Table 2 indicate that <br /> expenditures Ptures exceeded revenues for the residential land use category , while revenues exceeded <br /> expenditures for the commercial/industrial and farm land use categories . <br /> The computed revenue/ expenditure ratios quantifies the extent to which each of the three <br /> land use categories are either a net contributor or a net drain on Chatham County ' s financial <br /> resources . The two ratios for the residential sector are 0 . 90 and 0 , 93 , depending on how <br /> in <br /> expenses related to the Latino population are treated. These imply that for each dollar ' <br /> properly tax and other revenues generated by residential land uses , the county spends somewhere <br /> P Y <br /> between $ 1 . 07 and $ 1 . 12 to provide services supporting those land uses . In other words , the <br /> residential sector is on balance a net user of local public finances . <br /> 5 <br />