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Prescott staff demonstrate OpenGov platform to council, highlight public-safety tax tracking
Summary
City finance staff gave Prescott City Council a live demonstration of the new OpenGov financial-transparency and procurement platform at the June 10, 2025 study session, showing how the system displays budget, capital projects and public-safety tax revenues and offering follow-up training for council and the public.
At the Prescott City Council study session on June 10, 2025, city finance staff demonstrated the city’s new OpenGov transparency and procurement software, showing how residents and council can view budgets, capital plans and the recently adopted public-safety tax in near real time.
The demonstration, led by Catherine Bolen, senior accountant, walked council through preset views and interactive drill-downs in the online budget book, the capital plan and a dedicated public-safety tax “story” that pulls live data from the city’s accounting system. “The purpose of this ... is more to demonstrate how to navigate the system and how to get the information that you need,” Bolen said during the presentation.
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