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Council reviews new financial-transparency page; agrees to post three years of archived check registers and modernized reporting going forward
Summary
Finance staff demonstrated a new financial transparency webpage and current check-register posting. Council discussed prior records, redaction limits and HUD-related controls, and agreed to keep 36 months of archived check registers online while providing general-ledger details from March 2025 forward.
The City of Amarillo on July 22 unveiled a redesigned financial-transparency webpage that posts current fiscal-year check registers and a rolling 36 months of archived check-register spreadsheets from prior systems. Laura Storrs, the city’s finance director, said the new page is being built to meet the Texas Comptroller’s Transparency Star program and will include reconciled check-register exports in Excel format.
Why it matters: residents and open-records requesters have pressed for more timely financial access. At the meeting a public commenter raised…
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