{
  "type": "data-table",
  "title": "A salary note blocks an inspection budget",
  "caption": "The committee had two distinct facts in front of it—an unresolved raise and more contract help for gas-station inspections—then deferred the whole budget.",
  "source": {
    "label": "Vigo County Budget Committee, 2026-08-13 — Salary note flagged, 12:18",
    "href": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6VZOnQ0PS8&t=738"
  },
  "alt": "A two-row civic table separates the unresolved staff-raise note from added contractual-services help for a growing number of gas-station inspections. Because the raise question was unresolved, the entire weights and measures budget was deferred without a vote or return date.",
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      "Budget element",
      "What the committee knew",
      "Amount",
      "Status"
    ],
    "records": [
      [
        "Staff salary",
        "Unresolved note about whether the budget includes a raise",
        "Not stated",
        "Needs answer"
      ],
      [
        "Contractual services",
        "Added help for more gas-station inspections",
        "Not stated",
        "Included in deferred budget"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "footnote": "No salary, contract, or total budget amount was stated; unknown values are not shown as zero.",
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      "label": "Budget element",
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    },
    {
      "id": "known",
      "label": "What was known",
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    },
    {
      "id": "amount",
      "label": "Amount",
      "encode": "text"
    },
    {
      "id": "status",
      "label": "Status",
      "encode": "text"
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "element": "Staff salary",
      "known": "Raise note unresolved",
      "amount": "Not stated",
      "status": "Needs answer"
    },
    {
      "element": "Contract help",
      "known": "More gas-station inspections",
      "amount": "Not stated",
      "status": "Budget deferred"
    }
  ],
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}