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Salt Lake City, Utah

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Budget Y
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Meetings Y
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Elected Officials Y
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Administrative Officials Y
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Permits, zoning Y
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Audits Y
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Contracts Y
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Lobbying N
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Public records Y
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Local taxes Y
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School district websites
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Transparency grading process

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Salt Like City is the capital city of Utah.

[edit] Website evaluation

Main article: Evaluation of Utah city websites

In 2011 Salt Lake City earned a Sunny Award for having a perfect website transparency score.

This site was most recently evaluated on 12 Feb 2012.

[edit] The good

  • Extensive Information on audits is available. [1]
  • City of Denver's bids and RFPs are posted.[2]
  • Building permits and zoning information are available. [3]
  • Agendas and minutes, along with video content of meetings are all available.[4]
  • The current year's budget [5] and previous years' budgets [6] Are both available online.
  • The Mayor [7] and city council officials [8]contact information are posted online.
  • Provides information on local taxes.[9]
  • Contact information for the public records officer is available [10].

[edit] The bad

  • Lobbying information and ethics is not noted
  • There is no checkbook register available

[edit] The Sutherland Institute

The Sutherland Institute in Utah issued a transparency report that graded Utah cities according to a ten-point checklist.[11] The Institute spent 20 minutes on each website searching for checklist items to ensure that transparency items were both present and easily accessible. 111 cities were graded and averaged a score of roughly 5 points, which is the equivalent of a C- transparency grade.[12]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

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