Publish County Budget Allocations in Plain, Accessible Language

Budget transparency laws require counties to publish their financial allocations, and technically, ours does. But "published" and "understandable" are not the same thing. The current documents are long, jargon-heavy PDFs scattered across different formats, with no plain-language summary explaining what is actually being spent on roads, health, education, or water in each ward.

Residents deserve to know, in simple terms, how much money is allocated to their area and what it is meant to deliver — not just auditors and journalists with the time to decode a 200-page document.

We are asking the County Treasury to publish a short, plain-language budget summary alongside every official budget document, broken down by ward where possible, and updated whenever the budget is revised. This should include a simple visual breakdown (a chart or table is enough) showing where money is going and by when residents can expect