A complete list of city expenditures at a detailed transactional level (including: tax breaks, loans, contracts, grants, and operational spending). Records of actual (past) municipal spending at a detailed transactional level, for example, at the level of month to month expenditure on specific items (usually this means individual records of spending amounts at a fairly granular level - e.g. $5-50k rather than at the $1m+ level). Note: a database of contracts awarded is not considered sufficient. This data category refers to detailed ongoing data on actual expenditures. (More info)

Data Location

https://data.cityofsacramento.org/datastreams/79807/checks-issued/

Comments

Quality of data content: check number, issue date, payee name, amount. No data regarding why the payee is being paid. Quality of data structure: provided for download in multiple useful formats, website allows ordering for greatest to least and reverse, but there is no search function. Website organizes checks non-chronologically, ordering first by month, and then by date and year, which makes browsing difficult.

Data Availability

• ? Openly licensed
• Y Is the data available for free
• Y Is the data machine readable
• N Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis
• Y Available in bulk
• Y Publicly available
• Y Is the data available online
• Y Does the data exist
• Y Is data in digital form

Details

Date the data became available	Jan 2013
Format of data	CSV, XLS, XLSx, google spreadsheet
Reviewer	Amber Hottes
Submitters	Amber Hottes
Last modified	Sat Feb 22 2014 22:10:01 GMT+0000 (UTC)