It sounds easy, but what should be a simple task of putting your hands on a specific budget bill is hard work. With BudgeTrac you simply click on "General Appropriations" ) or ("Supplemental Budgets") and - voila! - see a list of every one of them going back to FY1997.
Say it's the 2006 budget you're researching. Click on Chapter 139 of the Acts of 2006 and you'll see the following list of all versions of that spending bill. Click on the one you're interested in and you get to see the whole budget.
About 650 versions of about 220 budgets (the numbers keep growing as we keep adding more) in just a couple of clicks.
This is the "wow" feature (we say shamelessly).
Choose a budget line item - one that's critical to you, a client - whoever. See each budget they appeared in, with amounts allocated.
Another "wow" feature. Pick a line item - we chose 4200-0300, an important account in the Youth Services budget. Choose two budget versions and click the compare button.
Each morning colleagues at our sister company, InstaTrac (the Massachusetts bill identification, tracking & analysis service) scour the news for budget, policy and political stories and analysis.
Everything that pertains to budgets or to the state's fiscal status appears on BudgeTrac for your easy and hassle-free viewing.
- • Local aid tallies for each municipality
- • Revenue estimates for each budget
- • Adopted, rejected and withdrawn amendments
- • Search capacity of outside sections(a/k/a riders)
- • Staff reports on budgets
- • Links to state budget web sites
- • Still more
The normal, annual, cost of the BudgeTrac service is: $1495 for those who do not subscribe to our sister service, InstaTrac; $995 for those who do.
We'll direct you to a special web site that enables you to see our computer screen and our mouse movements. And we'll all be able to talk to one another via a toll-free conference center line.
Please use the phone number or email address below to reserve your place at an online BudgeTrac demonstration. Thanks in advance.
Michael Segal, CEO
email: segal@instatrac.com
phone: 617.292.1800
web: www.budgetrac.info