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Where the money goes: the state frame, printed at last

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No Lakeville-specific figure exists — that discipline stands — but the state frame the money moves through can now be printed whole, which the banked article refused to do. The frame, from the Lottery's and the Budget Agency's own publications: the Hoosier Lottery began operations 13 October 1989 (after the 1988 referendum), and the 1989 Lottery Act built the Build Indiana Fund as the surplus's home. After prizes, commissions and expenses, the state's take is distributed in three named channels as the current annual report prints them: $30 million a year to the Teachers' Retirement Fund (through the Pension Stabilization Fund, addressing the pre-1996 unfunded liability), $30 million a year to local police and firefighter pensions (the Pension Relief Fund), and the remainder — the Lottery Surplus Fund, successor in function to the Build Indiana flow — which among its uses offsets the motor vehicle excise tax for local units in all 92 counties. For scale, the FY2025 annual report returns $340.6 million to the state on about $1.61 billion of sales. How the frame touches this city, at documented size and no further: Lakeville's teachers' pensions are inside the state fund the first channel feeds; its police and fire pensions inside the second; and its excise-tax offset inside the third — each at system strength, none allocable to the town as a figure, because teacher pensions are a state obligation the Budget Agency itself states cannot be allocated by county. The banked refusal (lk-tst-lottery) is therefore kept where it was right — no invented local figure — and lifted where it was not: the frame itself is printable, and is now printed.

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Source: Where the money goes: the state frame, printed at last, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/lottery-crypto/where-the-money-goes-the-state-frame-printed-at/