Role of the County Budget

Tips for Using the Online Budget Book 

OpenGov allows you to explore budget in a simple graphical user interface. The OpenGov Tool is best viewed using the Google Chrome browser. Download the latest version of Chrome here.

• You can access the Table of Contents for the adopted budget by clicking the link at the bottom of the Online Budget Book or click here.
• You may access the interactive budget book for the adopted budget throughout the links within the Table of Contents or by clicking here.
• You will notice the title of the report you are viewing in the top left corner.
• Click on "Saved" on the left-hand side to view a list of common or favorite views on each report.
• Select "Filter" to display key menus.
• You can use the "Show" drop-down menu to select the data that is of most interest to you.
• Use the "Broken Down By" drop-down menu to specify the category you would like the data organized by in your chart or graph.
• Select the "Filtered By" option to view the data filters. These filters will allow you to select exactly which data you want to include or exclude from your graph or chart.
• Use the "Search" function within each filter to find exactly what you are looking for.

Additional Tips for Using the Tool

• There are five different types of visual representations of the data - a percentage graph, a stacked graph, a line graph, a pie graph, and a bar graph. You can change your view at any time by simply clicking the desired type of representation at the top right of the page.
• You can share the data, in any view, on a social network or by email.
• You can also download the data into a .csv spreadsheet or a .png image.
  
  

MSBU

This office also manages the county's Municipal Services Benefit Unit programs, which include the county-wide fire protection MSBU, the Santa Rosa Island MSBU, and numerous others for street lighting, holding ponds and nuisance abatements.