Cities and towns across Massachusetts and few in other states have adopted Visual Budget, either the new WordPress plug-in or the original.

Helping budget offices communicate with citizens and elected officials Take your budget document and turn it into something beautiful…

Current partners

Charlottesville (advanced version), Albemarle, Lexington, Danville, and Warrenton

Features

Budget Process Interactive Timeline to encourage engagement Responsive design Taxpayer receipt function (optional) Direct links to the sources of the data Tooltips and comments for each line item Presents past actuals, current budgets, and forecasts Data available for download (and JSON) Easily discerned trends Simple data format (CSV by line item)