The site, which is being dubbed as "a window on your money," has a number of searchable databases that contain the following information.
- the entire payroll of more than 263,000 state government employees, cross-referenced by name, title, branch of government and agency;
- current teachers’ union contracts and superintendent of schools’ contracts for nearly all of New York State’s 733 school and BOCES districts;
- operating expenditures by both houses of the New York State Legislature; and
- the Legislature’s pork-barrel “member items” spending for 2008-09.
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I wholeheartedly believe in transparency in government. You mention Towns and Villages, however. Most of the information you speak about (payroll, spending) may be gleaned by simply picking-up a copy of your municipality's budget. Beyond that, one may attend their municipality's board meetings, or pick-up a copy of the minutes, to ascertain how well and effectively and truthfully the budget is being administered. Sadly, I don't see that happening very often. There is a certain apathy in the electorate that is frustrating to us proponents of government transparency.
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