This is just FUN

By: Diane Benjamin OpenTheBooks.com has a wonderful new feature for seeing how your money is spent. It’s called BENJAMIN chatbox. It isn’t named after me, it’s named after Benjamin Franklin. Click this link and look in the lower right corner: https://www.openthebooks.com/ You can search salaries, pensions, and vendor payments for anyone who gets tax dollars. […]

The County (not available) spending

By:  Diane Benjamin Total spending by vendor is NOT available on the County website.  This means nobody at the County really knows where taxpayer money is spent! Numerous committees approve their own bills for payment.  The only place we can see them is by month and by committee.  NO totals – even by committee.  The […]

Sorensen payroll FOIA

Read carefully – this shows the total for 5 years!  Not per year.   By:  Diane Benjamin As usual, the County website has less information than any other government website.  Citizens would be appalled at vendors and the amount of County tax dollars they receive – if they knew.  Unfortunately, there is no yearly summary […]