A budget residents can actually explore.
Finance directors and administrators already produce detailed budgets. CivicBudget turns them into an accessible public site — and CivicMeeting connects financial decisions to the meetings where they were debated.
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Budget transparency without a new system to run.
Smaller finance offices are thorough and stretched. Transparency efforts can’t become another system to maintain.
Budget books are hard to navigate
Residents with one question face hundreds of pages organized for specialists.
Numbers lack context
Totals mean little without prior-year figures, per-resident costs, or comparisons.
Questions repeat at hearings
Staff spend public meetings explaining basics that could be explained once.
Decisions are hard to trace
Linking a budget line to the meeting where it was approved takes research.
Practical tools for finance & administration teams.
Your budget, searchable and explained.
CivicBudget turns your official budget documents into a public site with instant search, a sortable ledger, and a page for every department showing its amount, change from last year, and cost per resident — each citing the official source.
- Built from documents you already publish
- Department pages with per-resident figures
- Every figure cites its official source
Context from peer communities.
Where suitable public data exists, place your budget beside comparable municipalities — in dollars or per resident — with an explanation of why communities differ.
- Peer communities you choose
- Per-resident and total views
- Limitations explained plainly
Connect spending decisions to the record.
CivicMeeting’s vote records, drawn from official minutes, make it easy to find when a loan order, appropriation, or transfer was approved — and to jump to the discussion that preceded it.
- Search decisions by subject
- Page citations from the minutes
- Jump to the discussion in the recording
Practical applications for Finance & Administration.
Budget season
Publish the proposed budget so residents can explore it before hearings and town meeting.
Revisions over time
Show how figures changed between proposed, revised, and adopted versions.
Per-resident context
Help residents understand department costs in terms that make sense to them.
Peer benchmarking
Compare spending categories with similar communities where data allows.
Tracing approvals
Find when appropriations and transfers were voted on, with citations.
A simple first project
CivicBudget is lightweight — an easy, affordable starting point with CivicTally.
Getting started is straightforward.
Share your budget documents
Send the current proposed or adopted budget and any peer communities of interest.
Review structured figures
Your finance staff review the structured data and branding before launch.
Publish & update
Launch the site and add new budget versions as they are released.
Features finance & administration teams use most.
Let’s talk about your finance & administration needs.
Tell us what your department is working on. We’ll suggest a practical starting point — often a single product — and show how it would work for you.