{"id":384,"date":"2008-03-04T18:27:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T23:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2008\/03\/04\/s-1144-you-spent-what\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T18:27:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T23:27:44","slug":"s-1144-you-spent-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/s-1144-you-spent-what\/","title":{"rendered":"s. 1144 you spent what?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update, we\u2019ve introduced S. 1144 and talked about it here<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/font>and here<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/font>. Below is the press release by Gov. Sanford on his recent executive order to provide spending information to the public. S. 1144 calls for the same transparency to all other forms of government in South Carolina. It\u2019s your money, take a look!<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Gov. Sanford Announces Completion of Spending Transparency Web Site<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span>NEW SITE WILL MAKE SPENDING INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO <\/span>CITIZENS VIA COMPTROLLER GENERAL\u2019S OFFICE<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font>Columbia, S.C. – March 3, 2008 – Gov. Mark Sanford today announced the completion of a new state Spending Transparency Web site, aimed at providing citizens with a greater degree of information about how their tax dollars are being used.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span>The site was created pursuant to a Spending Transparency Executive Order issued last year by the governor, and developed in concert with Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom\u2019s office. The goal of the site, which can be found here<\/a>, is to bring more accountability to where tax dollars are being spent. The site – which is freely accessible to the public – contains reports collected by the Comptroller General\u2019s Office on all agencies\u2019 funds expended and their source.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span>In addition, many agencies – including all Cabinet agencies – have provided even more information and details about their expenditures, including travel expenditures, expenditures for office supplies over $100, and contractual expenses over $100. Each Cabinet agency\u2019s database is searchable, and will be updated monthly. Cabinet agencies are also each adding the database link to their own Web sites.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span>The governor said that these databases should serve as a starting point, and challenged all agencies to participate as well.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/font>\u201cWe\u2019ve long believed that transparency is key to voters\u2019 ability to hold government accountable for the decisions it makes,\u201d Gov. Sanford said. \u201cThis new site is all about providing another tool for our citizens to have the maximum amount of information in terms of how their government operates and how their tax dollars are being spent. I want to thank the Comptroller General and the folks over at sc.gov for their work on this front, and I\u2019d urge every agency to do more in making more of this information available.\u201d<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font>\u201cI\u2019ve been working to open the curtains on government spending since I came into office,\u201d General Eckstrom said. \u201cTaxpayers have a right to know how their tax money is being spent. We\u2019ll keep working to make this information even easier to access.\u00a0 <\/span>That\u2019s one big reason why we need the new statewide computer system that we\u2019re installing, so that we can provide better financial data than we\u2019re able to provide with our thirty year old system.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update, we\u2019ve introduced S. 1144 and talked about it here\u00a0and here\u00a0. Below is the press release by Gov. Sanford on his recent executive order to provide spending information to the public. S. 1144 calls for the same transparency to all other forms of government in South Carolina. It\u2019s your money, take a look! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gov. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-6c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}