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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Ind. Gov't. - New "Transparency" web site

Lesley Stedman Weidenbener of the Louisville Courer Journal has a story today headed "New website gives taxpayers a look at state finances." It begins:

Hoosiers can look up salary information for lawmakers and state employees at a new website designed to offer taxpayers a simple place to go for information about government spending.

The site – www.Transparency.IN.gov – pulls together reports, databases and other financial information that had been scattered across state government sites and adds new tools for tracking employee salaries, agency budgets and local government financial reports.

Later this year, taxpayers should be able to search state expenditures to identify payments for goods, services and programs, said state Auditor Tim Berry, who developed the site with the Indiana Office of Management and Budget.

“Much of this is information that wasn’t easy to find. You might not have known it was there,” Berry said Tuesday during a demonstration of the site’s tools. “Bringing it together in a single location will provide greater ease, greater transparency, greater understanding to the taxpayers of Indiana.”

One valuable aspect is that you can see the entire salary range of the employees in a specific state agency, such as the Legislative Services Agency, or the Attorney General, by going to the State Employees page, and selecting only the name of the agency. You can also sort by column.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 31, 2010 03:09 PM
Posted to Indiana Government