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Using Town Property Finder with Payroll Data
Not a few people thought it a sign of a new world of lost privacy when Tiverton joined the other cities and towns in Rhode Island in allowing information about every property within its borders to be put unrestricted on the Internet. Of course, the information was public before; …
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Sometimes the Details Behind the Totals Are Important… Ask for Them
In setting up a tool like Tiverton Fact Check’s payroll transparency application, which is intended for general use, it’s necessary to decide where to draw the line. For example, for the municipal side of the budget, we were given the amounts that employees received for each type of “other pay.” …
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Herrmann’s Lack of School Committee Pay
Users of Tiverton Fact Check’s payroll transparency application may notice that Carol Herrmann is not listed as receiving the $1,200 annual stipend for being a member of the School Committee. (It’s $1,320 for the chairperson.) According to finance/administration director Doug Fiore, that’s not an error. …
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Using Campaign Finance Info with Payroll Data
Transparency Web sites can show taxpayers and voters the dots that they need in order to keep track of government’s activities, but those dots still have to be connected. Unfortunately, some of the same technology and trends that bring us such access to information have changed …
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Payment Dates Skewed School Pay for 2012 (Updated 9/8/14)
One of the first things users of the payroll transparency site might notice is that the school department had a very substantial dip in pay for 2013. According to Doug Fiore, the director of finance and administration for the district, the reason is the timing …
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Transparency Comes to Tiverton
As a new part of its open government initiative, the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity launched today a new municipal transparency portal in partnership with the Tiverton Taxpayer Association. The local group’s Web site, TivertonFactCheck.org, hosts the Center’s latest interactive module that allows users …
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More coming soon!
Tiverton Fact Check will be adding new content and new features on an ongoing basis.
