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Morgantown unveils in-house financial transparency portal and checkbook
Summary
Finance Director John Ferguson demonstrated a new transparency center and checkbook on morgantownwv.gov, built in-house after vendor integration problems; the tool shows monthly expenditures, fund balances and cash-on-hand and will be updated monthly with FY25 data after audit completion.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The city showed a new financial transparency portal at its March 31 workshop, saying the tool will make monthly department- and fund-level spending and cash-on-hand visible to the public.
John Ferguson, the city's finance director, demonstrated the portal on morgantownwv.gov and described why staff opted to build an in-house system: the city's previous ERP and the vendor's integration formats broke automated feeds, and the vendor's estimated…
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