Municipal budget at a high level (e.g. planned budget by unit of appropriation with a programmatic description of each unit of appropriation). This category is about budgets which are plans for expenditure (not actual expenditure in the past). (More info)

Data Location

https://stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/budget/transparency/Budget-and-Related-Documents.cfm

Comments

Since the City's fiscal year ends in July, they are not currently in a budgeting cycle, so these answers are really based on the current annual operating budget.

The document is a PDF plan. The data contained in them is not always tabular, and not always the same format, but more importantly embedded in huge blocks of text and other information. The detail is fairly deep, especially in the line item documents, and seems to be a complete data set, but it would take extensive manual work to put it into a machine readable format. The line item documents have the least amount of extraneous text and the most consistent format, so would be the best for extraction.

The licensing is not specified at all, and should be even if public domain. The publication data is after the budget is enacted. Proposed budgets might be available in a more timely fashion, but this information is not available at this time because of the current budget cycle.

Data Availability

• ? Openly licensed
• Y Is the data available for free
• N Is the data machine readable
• ? 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	6/25/1999
Format of data	PDF
Reviewer	Brett Lord-Castillo
Submitters	Brett Lord-Castillo
Last modified	Sat Feb 22 2014 17:02:14 GMT+0000 (UTC)