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An Ordinance of the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to amend the Code of the County of Allegheny, Division 1, by the addition of a new §5-203.08, requiring that all County authorities delineated within the Administrative Code make information pertaining to their budgets available to the public on their respective websites.
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WHEREAS, the County and Commonwealth have repeatedly expressed a desire for complete transparency in the finances of the various County authorities created under the provisions of state and local law; and
WHEREAS, these County authorities all have appointed governing bodies which do not have any direct accountability to the voters of the County or Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, although the state laws under which the County authorities are created, such as the Municipality Authorities Act, frequently provide that an authority must file an annual report of its fiscal affairs, these statutory requirements do not specify that the reports produced must be posted on the internet, which is the most readily available forum to many of the County's residents; and
WHEREAS, requiring such public posting is in the best interest of both the County and its authorities, in that it fosters both transparency and accountability on the part of the authorities;
The Council of the County of Allegheny hereby enacts as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 203 of Division 1 of the Code of Allegheny County is hereby amended to include a new §5-203.08 as follows:
§5-203.08. Budgetary Information Dissemination Requirement.
A. Any authority created singularly or jointly by Allegheny County enumerated in §5-203.01 above shall maintain at its offices and post on its internet site a summary of budgetary information pertaining to that authority. Such summary shall be made available to the public at no charge, and shall include, but not be limited to, the following information:
1. A brief description of the servic...
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