Transparent Budget

MBPC, a nonpartisan organization, has reported on a more transparent budget process.

Additional reports are available on their web site, as well as subscriber information.
One might hope this trickles down to the Middleboro BOS.

A More Transparent Budget: Continuing the Progress

November 23, 2007 Massachusetts government made significant progress this year toward making it easier for regular people to understand how we are spending our tax dollars. These new transparency initiatives allow anyone to visit the budget website and find extensive information including current and historic appropriations for each area of government and mission statements for departments.A More Transparent Budget: Continuing the Progress details the progress made this year and identifies additional steps that would further strengthen the capacity of all the people of Massachusetts to understand the budget and participate meaningfully in debates about budget priorities. This report was prepared by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MBPC) and the McCormack Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts. It follows on a report issued last year by those organizations and others that outlined a comprehensive set of recommendations to create a more transparent budget.A Boston Globe op-ed, co-authored by Noah Berger, MBPC's Executive Director, and Steven Crosby, Dean of the McCormack Graduate School and co-chairman of Governor Deval Patrick's transition team on budget and finance, explaining the findings of the report is available at this link.

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