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Board of Commissioners — Spending approved

Every dollar figure written into a motion the body adopted, added up. Each amount is copied verbatim from the motion text — nothing here is inferred or estimated.

What this counts — and what it doesn't. This is the sum of dollar amounts that appear in the text of motions the Board of Commissioners adopted, in the meetings we've published. It is not the county budget, not actual money spent, and not a complete accounting of Knox County spending. An amount appears here only when it was found verbatim in the motion text; a motion with no stated figure contributes nothing. Shows decisions recorded in official minutes. Applications or purchases made administratively, without a recorded vote, may not appear.

Excludes 13 motions not yet published. Contested and deferred votes publish only after review, so this total can run low until the queue clears.

$2,466,681,397.41

total approved in adopted motions

1,448

adopted motions carrying an amount across 1,825 figures

≈ $5,150 per resident

using 478,971 residents (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Decennial Census, 2020)

By year & quarter

Period Adopted motions Approved
2026 124 $448,473,389.43
Q3 2026 47 $387,577,429.28
Q2 2026 40 $25,817,537.10
Q1 2026 37 $35,078,423.05
2025 239 $290,217,846.23
Q4 2025 51 $40,681,936.32
Q3 2025 70 $84,589,560.24
Q2 2025 70 $137,702,551.85
Q1 2025 48 $27,243,797.82
2024 276 $476,024,654.86
Q4 2024 59 $36,965,012.30
Q3 2024 76 $73,473,828.45
Q2 2024 80 $77,568,352.74
Q1 2024 61 $288,017,461.37
2023 274 $469,513,300.92
Q4 2023 72 $43,245,206.22
Q3 2023 59 $111,034,248.86
Q2 2023 73 $257,836,378.08
Q1 2023 70 $57,397,467.76
2022 225 $243,403,890.18
Q4 2022 55 $57,958,186.68
Q3 2022 54 $37,707,727.22
Q2 2022 79 $104,855,064.56
Q1 2022 37 $42,882,911.72
2021 223 $330,542,028.89
Q4 2021 50 $20,721,179.29
Q3 2021 61 $84,300,820.92
Q2 2021 56 $75,555,986.22
Q1 2021 56 $149,964,042.46
2020 87 $208,506,286.90
Q4 2020 58 $20,810,108.50
Q3 2020 29 $187,696,178.40

Every decision counted

Each adopted motion above, with the amount(s) written into it. Follow any link to the full decision and its source minutes.

Contracts & vendor awards

Contract and purchase awards the minutes record — the vendor and the amount exactly as the record states them. Each is reviewed by a human before it appears here, and links to its own shareable page and the full decision.

Shows decisions recorded in official minutes. Applications or purchases made administratively, without a recorded vote, may not appear.

Spending records

Financial actions the minutes record — a grant or donation accepted, funds appropriated. Each is reviewed by a human before it appears here, and links to its own shareable page.

How these are counted. We scan the text of every adopted, published motion for explicit dollar figures written with a $ (for example $2,400,000), copy each one verbatim, and sum them by the meeting's year and quarter. Only adopted motions count — a deferred, failed, or withdrawn motion approved no money. Scaled figures like “$2.4 million” written in words are deliberately skipped rather than guessed at. Per-resident figures divide the total by the cited population. See Methodology.