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County to allow easy access to finance records
Butler County Auditor Roger Reynolds presented a plan to commissioners Thursday, June 5, that will eventually allow the public to view county finances online.
The auditor’s office and the county information technology department have been working on a Web tool that will allow virtual visitors to search county expenditures.
A link should appear on the auditor’s Web page that will direct local residents to the database once the project is finished in the next few weeks.
Reynolds said the new online database, which is being created internally, should only cost “a few thousand dollars.”
Reynolds stressed to commissioners Thursday that his department will take the necessary steps to protect confidential information. And he said providing such a database online — accessible from anywhere — will save the department money and time it would have spent gathering, copying and distributing similar public records.
County commissioners and other officials came under fire — by the public and this newspaper — about their handling of the countywide fiber optics network and deals gone bad with Dynus Corp. in 2006. Many chastised the way in which alleged deals were made between the county and Dynus from 2002 to when the project fell apart in 2005.
On Thursday, they lauded the idea, asking if the new online system could be applied to other departments, such as their own.
Question: Do you think the new online database is a good idea? Will you use it?
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