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A NEW LEVEL OF BUDGET TRANSPARENCY: FULL ACCESS TO CITY FINANCES AND BUDGETARY TRANSACTIONS IS COMING
As part of our ongoing push toward full digitalization and maximum transparency within the City Administration, the City of San Francisco is launching a new online project—aiming to make our most vital document, the City of San Francisco budget, completely transparent. This app is being rolled out in partnership with the Synergy Institute for Science and Society, based in Savannah, which has already successfully implemented this exact project in Madison and Newport. San Francisco will be the largest city in the country to introduce this level of openness, inviting citizens to actually participate in decision-making and the work of the City Administration.
The Contract for Phase One Implementation is valued at $75,000, and the pilot program will cover two specific departments: the Department of Social Affairs and International Relations and the department handling EU Funds.
- "This project is our way of rebuilding trust between citizens and public institutions. Through this, our residents will have a clear view of all City payments and budget user expenditures—they'll see exactly where the money is going. We want to pull back the curtain on the City Administration, make everything totally transparent, and bring citizens in as true partners to work toward one goal: a high-quality life in an organized city," says Mayor Andro Krstulović Opara, who signed the Contract for Phase One Implementation alongside Vuk Vuković from the Synergy Institute for Science and Society.