审计长bet356英国在线 recognizes Sunshine Week, highlights statewide transparency efforts
The Office of the 联邦审计长 of 质量achusetts is pleased to recognize Sunshine Week, 3月10到16, 2024. Sunshine Week is an annual event that emphasizes the importance of open 政府ernment and offers an opportunity to highlight the work of organizations that work in the transparency and 问责制 space. The 审计长bet356英国在线 also recognizes the journalists and news editors who we consider partners in our core values of transparency, 问责制, 以及州政府的廉正.
Sunshine Week was launched in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors. Government transparency offers many benefits for the 政府ernment and citizens, including helping increase 政府ernment efficiency and effectiveness. The 审计长bet356英国在线 is spreading the word on 政府ernment transparency this Sunshine Week on social media to lend a voice to the open 政府ernment movement. The 审计长bet356英国在线 is sharing the importance of transparent 政府ernment throughout the entire month of March.
“透明度 promotes efficiency and effectiveness in 政府ernment,” said 联邦审计长 威廉·麦克纳马拉. “We join in this celebration of Sunshine Week and hope that residents of the Commonwealth of 质量achusetts take this opportunity to use the resources we provide to become better informed about 政府ernment finance.”
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NextRequest
The 审计长bet356英国在线 became the first statewide agency in the Commonwealth of 质量achusetts to implement NextRequest, an online public records portal for management of public records requests. NextRequest offers a searchable database of documents provided by the 审计长bet356英国在线 in response to public records requests dating back to 2019.
The 审计长bet356英国在线 has received and responded to an increasing number of public records requests, totaling more than 500 requests since 2016. During calendar year 2023, the 审计长bet356英国在线 responded to 112项公共记录请求, with an average response time of 4.3个工作日.
Users have downloaded 3,551 documents through NextRequest since the office’s implementation of this technology in January 2020.
CTHRU
The 审计长bet356英国在线 maintains CTHRU, 位于 http://6rg.hebhgkq.com/cthru/, an online publication of datasets on all aspects of state finance, including statewide payroll and statewide spending. The CTHRU Statewide Spending portal accounts for $88.89 billion in state spending for Fiscal Year 2023, with details on 2.7800万笔交易. This figure represents spending through the use of appropriated, 资本, 联邦政府拨款, 信任, and non-tax revenue funding sources. In recent years, the 审计长bet356英国在线 has added new datasets to CTHRU, including:
- 联邦收入 – Virtually all tax and non-tax revenue collected by the Commonwealth, dating back to 2006.
- Non-Budgeted Special Revenue Funds and Trusts – Information on operating accounts that are not subject to the Commonwealth’s budgeting process.
- Commonwealth Stabilization (“Rainy Day”) Fund – Balance of the Commonwealth’s reserve, 包括利息, income tax withholding on certain transfers of Lottery prizes, 10% of the gaming profits generated by MGM Springfield and Encore Boston Harbor casinos.
- 和解与判决 ——支付, 由部门, of settlements and judgments from the 和解与判决 appropriation account.
- Other Pay – Detailed information about the 全国范围内的工资 category “Other Pay”, 包括备用工资, 轮班差别工资, 点名工资, 津贴/奖金/奖励, research activity / summer salary compensation, 专业发展, 警察详细, 工资——补充工资.