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Open Book Texas a window on state spending.(COMMODITY CODING)
When Susan Combs took office as Texas State Comptroller of Public Accounts in January 2007, she posed a seemingly simple question: "Where does all the money go?"
Firmly believing that government must be fully accountable to the people it serves, she and her staff went to work using technology to enable transparency for the state. Within three days after taking office, her team had posted the expenses for the comptroller's office on the Web. But they did not stop there.
The Open Book Project
Building on the success of posting their expenses down to the cost of each pencil, Combs' team began the Open Book Project, a far-reaching effort to bring transparency to state spending. The first task was to ask 23 state agencies, representing more than 80 percent of spending, to share their data, which was classified by a combination of general ledger object of expenditure codes and/or NIGP Code. By June 2007, the online searchable database contained the spending data for all state agencies. By Oct. 1, 2007, nine months after the start of the initiative, a virtual check register went up on the Web, and every check, every agency and every recipient could be seen online.
The Open Book Texas Web site (www.window.state.tx.us/openbook) is the portal that was created by the initiative. Residents, agencies and local governments can access the site to research spend data or access tools, including: Where the Money Goes, which uses the commodity code to report spending by state agencies down to the pencil; Texas Stimulus Impact, which allows users to see and track money from the federal stimulus package; and Texas Transparency Check-up, which allows users to see how Texas cities, counties, schools and other local entities are giving a transparent look at their books.
Where the money goes
The Where the Money Goes page ...
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