Controller's New Dashboard Gives Angelenos First Real-Time Look Inside Los Angeles Finances

Los Angeles CA

12 July, 2021

8:43 AM

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Press release from the City of Los Angeles: July 8, 2021 L.A. Controller Ron Galperin released an online dashboard that tracks the City's most important financial information in real time. "Inside L.A. City Finances" contains datasets and visualizations showing the current balance in each of the city's 800+ funds, including the General and Reserve Funds, charts City salaries and overtime, and tracks budget revenues and expenditures. The first dashboard of its kind at the City of Los Angeles, "Inside L.A. City Finances" enhances the Controller's groundbreaking open data portal by giving Angelenos a more transparent picture of where the City's money comes from, and how it is kept and spent. Dashboard information is updated regularly: daily (M-F) for all City fund balances, bi-weekly for payroll, and monthly for revenue and expenditures. Budget data will be updated after the beginning of the next fiscal year. Explore "Inside L.A. City Finances" This press release was produced by the City of Los Angeles. The views expressed here are the author's own.