NSAANASC Joint Middle Management Conference Kansas Taxpayer Transparency Act

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NSAA/NASC Joint Middle Management
ConferenceKansas Taxpayer Transparency Act

• April 20, 2009

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Legislation

• Various stakeholder groups expressed interest in
  transparency
• Legislation was introduced in the Government
  Efficiency Technology Committee
• Kansas Taxpayer Transparency Act was originally
  required by proviso language in House Bill 2368
  of the 2007 legislative session
• The Act became a separate law during the 2008
  legislative session as SB316
• Codified into permanent law as KSA 74-72, 122 et
  seq.
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Senate Bill 316 requirements

• The Secretary of Administration shall provide a
  Searchable website for
• funds established in the state treasury
• compensation paid to public employees
• bond debt
• The Secretary of Administration shall develop and
  operate a single, searchable website that shall
  include expenditures as available within the
  current central accounting system and state
  payroll system

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Senate Bill 316 requirements

• Expenditures shall include
• Disbursements by any state agency from
  funds established in the state treasury
• Bond debt payments
• Salaries and wages
• Commodities, including amounts paid to
  individual vendors
• Debt service
• Aid to local units of government
• Other assistance and benefits
• Capital improvements

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Senate Bill 316 requirements

• Revenues shall include
• Receipts or deposits by any state agency
  into funds established within the state
  treasury
• Taxes
• Agency earnings
• Revenue for the use of money and property
• Gifts, donations and federal grants
• Other revenue
• Non-revenue receipts

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Senate Bill 316 requirements

• 10 years of information
• Information to be posted no later than 45 days
  after the last day of the preceding fiscal year
• Nothing in this act shall permit or require the
  disclosure of information which is considered
  confidential by state or federal law.

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Senate Bill 316 requirements

• Public Finance Transparency Board created
• Secretary of Administration, chair
• Director of Accounts Reports
• Two executive branch CEO members, appointed
  by the Governor
• Four general public members, two appointed by
  the Governor, one each by Senate President and
  Speaker of the House
• Four members of the legislature, one each
  appointed by Senate President, Senate minority
  leader, Speaker of the House and House minority
  leader
• The legislative post auditor
• The state archivist
• The director of legislative research

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Planning

• State of Kansas partnered with the Information
  Network of Kansas (INK)
• State of Kansas to provide content for website
• INK to develop, maintain and host website at no
  cost to the State of Kansas
• Go-Live of website - February 29, 2008

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Content

• State of Kansas used the Statewide Accounting and
  Reporting System (STARS) to obtain source content
• Source content includes all state payments and
  summary payroll information
• Authority for removing or appropriately
  preventing the disclosure of confidential
  information was obtained and documented
• Filters were developed and applied to source data
  
• Scrubbed data was provided to INK

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Statistics Google Analytics

• Site visits
• Average time on static page
• Views to terms page
• Views to budget variance page
• Views to disclaimer page
• New/returning visitors
• Searches
• Average time on search page
• Access to search page
• New/returning visitors
• Top 3 pages
• Top 3 searches
• Location of visitors

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Planning for new content

• Employee Compensation - Spring/Summer, 2009
• Statewide Accounting, Management and Reporting
  Tool (SMART) July 1, 2010 (Go-Live)
• Vendor self-service component
• More frequent refreshing of certain information
• Links to agency programmatic information
• Consideration of information related to local
  units of government

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Questions?

• ? http//www.kansas.gov/kanview/