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Budget data shows how tax dollars are intended to be spent, and allows residents to compare policy plans against actual spending. For purposes of this Census, budget data should include the planned budget by unit of appropriation with a programmatic description of each unit of appropriation.
This category is about budgets which are plans for expenditure (not actual expenditure in the past). (More info)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | No | |
| Available in bulk | Yes | it's a PDF. |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | it's a PDF! | |
| findable | 3 | search on the city website |
| findable_steps | went to city of cleveland's website, search box, typed in budget, then found the result. | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 1 | although initially effort for very basic things (like how much a department spends in total) is visible in the pdf, PDF formatting makes it difficult to do any sort of analysis that is sophisticated. |
| collector_name | office of budget and management | |
| characteristics | Department, agency, or office, Category or expense, Amount of money | There are descriptions of programs that the department does, but they do not say how much was spent on the particular program for the department; but just lists expenditure types like staffing (benefits and salaries, in aggregate); office supplies, contractual services |
| location | https://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/sites/default/files/for - PDF |