Your Tax Dollars at Work

1. Your Tax Dollars at Work
Concept
 2009
Develop a one-stop web site that allows
citizens to better track and understand where
money is spent and how the city gets revenue.
Ordinance passed by the Louisville Metro Council
that established the guidelines that the site
was to meet.

2. Your Tax Dollars at Work
The site builds on the Fischer Administration’s
Louisville Metro Citizen’s Bill of Rights
INCLUSIVE AND TRANSPARENT PROCESS
Every citizen has the right to be involved in government and
have his or her voice heard at Louisville Metro Hall. As
mayor, I will create a culture of inclusiveness and maintain
open communications with the community. To understand
diverse viewpoints, answer questions, and promote dialogue,
I will keep regular open office hours and hold countywide
community forums to meet with citizens and business owners
and listen to their concerns.

3. Your Tax Dollars at Work
 Project Implementation
Phase One
Centralize all financial documents in one easy
to access repository. This includes Louisville
Metro Government’s Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report (CAFR), budget documents,
City audit reports, monthly revenue reports,
etc.

4. Your Tax Dollars at Work
Phase Two
involved publishing detailed expenditure information
for the various programs in place at Louisville Metro
Government.
Features added to the site:
• Contracts valued at $250,000. or more were scanned and
published on the website
• List of Metro Government boards and commissions and their
members including position and contact information

5. Your Tax Dollars at Work
Phase Three
Final phase of project included publishing all contracts
valued at $50,000. or more on the website. This
phase was dependent on the implementation of the
Oracle Imaging and Process Management system that
was utilized to scan, redact, and publish this
information to the public facing website.

6. Your Tax Dollars at Work
 Annual budget
 Funding sources
 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)
 Quarterly revenue estimates
 Annual Audits
 Metro expenditures/payments for supplies, personnel, equipment, etc.
(initially excel; searchable database in the future)
 Ability for users to submit comments or suggestions for improving
transparency (general feedback link already available, we will add
specific link to new pages)
 Employee salaries
 Detailed description/narrative of expenditures with links to actual
grants or contracts
 Copies of agreements, grants, contracts and other binding documents

7. Your Tax Dollars at Work
Technology
 Your Tax Dollars at Work applications –
Employee Salary Search and the Louisville
Checkbook represent a significant investment
into data analysis, information
processing/workflows, data warehousing and
user experience.

8. Your Tax Dollars at Work
 Consistent data management is a
necessity
 Flexibility
 Exception reporting
 User experience

9. Your Tax Dollars at Work
Oracle
Financials
(Records)
Transparency
Staging Louisville
Data
Tables Warehouse Checkbook
Oracle IPM
(Images and
Flags) Exceptions
list

10. Your Tax Dollars at Work
Key Points
 What is significant about the contractor/vendor
information being available online?
 How does this contractor/vendor feature improve
government transparency?
 What challenges, if any, are there in making this
information available online?
 How much web traffic has that feature of the Tax
Dollars at Work received so far?

11. Your Tax Dollars at Work
Questions
Website Demonstration