Watchdog says Kingston school district's budget draft should be available to public
From Sunshine Review
February 21, 2009
[edit] Watchdog says Kingston school district's budget draft should be available to public
"City school district officials say they do not want to distribute the first draft of their $141.7 million budget for 2009-10 primarily because not all the figures are accurate yet. But the state’s public information watchdog says the public is entitled to that information.
“In the courts’ eyes, the fact that it’s a draft means nothing,” said Robert Freeman, executive director of the New York Committee on Open Government. “It’s about content. Statistics and figures (like those found in a budget) are public information. If estimates and projections are not accurate or not realistic, even if they’re pie in the sky, that doesn’t matter.”"
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