1. Financial Transparency Portal

2. What is a transparency portal?
It’s Your Money
What is a transparency portal?
It’s a web page that provides access to searchable online financial databases and reports
It is a single point of reference to review how your money is being spent.
It is updated on a timely basis
It will evolve as we add features requested from the Council and the public

3. It’s Your Money
The Missouri model

4. It’s Your Money
Our proposed model

5. It’s Your Money
Our proposed model
Searchable

6. Who does transparent government?
It’s Your Money
Who does transparent government?
Many state governments and school districts
Several County governments
Some municipal governments
Fort Collins, CO
Many cities do salary only
The City of Surprise would be among the first in the nation to have a comprehensive transparency portal
Salary only cities: San Diego, Buffalo, NY, New York City, Alameda CA, etc.

7. Why Transparent Government?
It’s Your Money
Why Transparent Government?
Taxpayers deserve to know exactly how government spends their tax dollars
The key to accountability is access to pertinent information
In the recent past that meant a formal records request, now through the Internet everyone will have most of that access.

8. It’s Your Money

9. It’s Your Money

10. It’s Your Money

11. It’s Your Money

12. It’s Your Money

13. Brand/ marketing strategy in place Initial “phase 1” rollout this week
It’s Your Money
Multi Phase rollout
Brand/ marketing strategy in place
Initial “phase 1” rollout this week
Add/ promote searchability as back end develops

14. Questions or Comments? It’s Your Money
Last slide in your presentation.

16. It’s Your Money
Mock-ups

17. It’s Your Money
Mock-ups