Howard County Capital Project Budget Allocations for Fiscal Year 2016

Fiscal Year 2016 funding allocations for capital projects in Howard County, Maryland. The dataset lists individual projects, their categories, and budget amounts sourced from official county records. It was published on the Howard County Open Data portal and last updated in August 2015.

Use Cases

• Analyze budget distribution across project categories using the Category and Budget_Allocation columns.
• Track funding sources for specific capital initiatives using the Revenue_Source and Project columns.
• Identify high-budget projects for audit or review by sorting the Budget_Allocation column.
• Cross-reference individual projects using the unique Capital_Project_No identifier.

Strengths

• Data is structured with clear columns for project identification, categorization, and financial amounts.
• Published by an official government source (opendata.howardcountymd.gov) via the Socrata platform.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Last updated 2015-08-27 17:09:50; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

opendata.howardcountymd.gov

Collection Method

Likely extracted from official county budget and capital planning records.

Time Range

Fiscal Year 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2015-08-27 17:09:50

Geography

Howard County, Maryland, USA