{"id":262742,"date":"2013-06-12T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=262742"},"modified":"2013-06-13T12:17:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T17:17:01","slug":"county-honored-with-gold-leadership-transparency-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=262742","title":{"rendered":"County Honored With Gold Leadership Transparency Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=262743\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-262743\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/thumb_smithcounty-seal.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_smithcounty-seal\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-262743\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Smith County has been honored for a third time with the 2013 Texas Comptroller Gold Leadership Circle Award for financial transparency in government.  According to a county news release, The award recognizes local governments across Texas that are striving to meet a high standard for online financial transparency through:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         opening their books to the public;<br \/>\n\u00b7         providing clear, consistent pictures of spending; and<br \/>\n\u00b7         the sharing of information in a user-friendly format to assist citizens  in understanding how their tax dollars are spent.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>County Judge Joel Baker, who serves as Chief Budget Officer for the County, says posting the County\u2019s check register online, making videos of  public meetings readily available, and publishing the County\u2019s complete budget document on its website are just a few of the steps the county has taken to promote transparency and community involvement in County government.  \u201cThe citizens of Smith County are very involved and interested in what we do as stewards of the taxpayers\u2019 dollars. We want everyone to have access to our meetings and financial transactions from their home or office computer so they can stay updated and involved with the decisions that we make,\u201d Judge Baker said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news release, Smith County posts the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports, Adopted Budgets, Budget to Actual Reports, and the main operating and capital check registers online to provide the public with a clear overview of the financial transactions of the county.  Weekly Commissioners Court meetings where financial issues are often discussed and voted on are open to the public or available to download and view online at smith-county.com.  Smith County will be highlighted on the Texas Transparency Website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastransparency.org\/local\/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.texastransparency.org\/local\/index.php<\/a> according to the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Smith County has been honored for a third time with the 2013 Texas Comptroller Gold Leadership Circle Award for financial transparency in government. According to a county news release, The award recognizes local governments across Texas that are striving to meet a high standard for online financial transparency through: \u00b7 opening their books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=262742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">County Honored With Gold Leadership Transparency Award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 08:05:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262742"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263012,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262742\/revisions\/263012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}