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Council member seeks $60,000 for searchable, year‑round metro budget database
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Council member Welsh proposed $60,000 to build a publicly searchable database that would tag metro spending by categories such as childcare and maternal health, aiming to make year‑over‑year comparisons easier; staff said the project would need ITS integration and finance participation.
Council member Welsh proposed $60,000 to create a searchable, year‑round public database that would allow residents to track metro government spending by category.
“we go through this budget process every year and we talk about, we give certain dollar amounts to each thing that we fund within metro government. But I don't necessarily think that, the people in our community actually know where those dollars are going, what they're actually funding,” Welsh said, arguing the tool would make it easier to see how dollars are…
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