“We signed with ClearGov in October and had a draft budget distributed to department heads by November 1st! ClearGov’s client success team got our financial data uploaded, mapped, and verified — and trained our team — all within two weeks.” [...]
Superintendents ready their 3-year improvement plans Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed the Student Opportunity Act (SOA) into law back in November of 2019. Touted as the most significant update to Massachusetts’ education funding system in nearly three decades, the SOA [...]
Overlooked, underrepresented, and mistaken for someone else One Tuesday (and the occasional Wednesday) a month, we curate and share three short talks on a theme. For February, shining a spotlight on Black history seemed the obvious choice, and I found [...]
“ClearGov helps us satisfy one of council’s main goals which is being transparent to the public, but it also allows us to do so in a much more efficient manner than before. Unlike the previous transparency provider, ClearGov actually uploads [...]
The latest on public perception and effective outreach You may be surprised to learn that the 2020 Census count is technically already underway. Census Bureau workers ceremoniously kicked off a door-to-door count in the remote rural village of Toksook Bay, [...]
Getting everyone on the same page saves time, money, and headaches You kick off every planning and budget season the same way. You export your data from your accounting system, update all the formulas, add in one-time-only line items, change [...]
“ClearGov has been amazing. The client success team bent over backwards to help us meet our Transparency Star requirements, including implementing the open checkbook feature (which I love).” Bianca Redmon – Chief Financial Officer Primary Objective: Balch Springs needed to [...]
“With ClearGov’s built-in forecasting tool, we can better assess how budget decisions made today will impact both revenues and expenditures for our community in the future and plan accordingly. Best of all, once we complete either a proposed or a [...]
Fixing government, digitalizing trust, and setting goals One Tuesday a month, we curate and share three short talks on a theme. This month, as we kick off a new decade, we’ve gathered governing insights from around the globe. Surprisingly, there’s [...]
Citizen engagement best practices for local government and schools You’ve published your Transparency Center, now what? First of all, give yourself and your team a pat on the back. Good on you for getting your financials posted in an easily [...]
