City finances on-line


By albany layman, Section Diaries
Posted on Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 05:01:09 PM EST

Via the TU, the State Comptroller has a web site on which you can look at reports of municipal finances.  The site is called Open Book New York.

I just did a quick look at Albany's info and it looks like the most current numbers are from 2006.  But, it might still be worth looking at, since it's undoubtedly more user-friendly than those scanned-in PDF's that the city itself posts on-line.

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City finances on-line | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 hidden)
Good start (none / 0) (#1)
by Tom Paine on Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 05:31:36 AM EST
This is a very good start. However, they really need to take the next step and expose the tables (i.e., spreadsheets) from which this data is obtained. That way we could download them and actually do some analysis.

It'd be nice to have it up-to-date also ;)

luke warm (none / 0) (#2)
by DIA on Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 05:39:56 AM EST
As tom points out, these aren't really useful.    

We need the full details.  And since we have a full time budget director in Albany, there is no reason those can't be provided in electronic format.  

Of course, that would allow the citizens to see what was happening to their money, so it won' happen until we get a new mayor.  At which point I'm sure they will be eager to open the books so they can put the blame squarely where it belongs.

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