254 OpenGov Testimonials

“We had a front office staff who transitioned from a receptionist role to more of a financial specialist role. So much of their time was freed up that they had a career progression to move over to finance.”

“For our younger generation, we are making sure that we’re doing things more efficiently and saving the planet. With OpenGov, our vendors submit everything electronically, and our entire bid cycle uses less paper.”

“I saw demonstrations at ICMA’s annual conferences, and was pretty impressed by [OpenGov’s] features.”

“To us, our budget isn’t terribly complicated, but if you aren’t familiar with our process it can be confusing. This new tool will help everyone better understand where the City of Beaufort spends its money, how recent years compare, and how department budgets change over time."

“There are a lot of trends we have discovered with OpenGov, because in the past we never had this kind of detail.”

“OpenGov made the process of going online very simple.”

“This is about a common cause, and this is about doing what is right. Whether you’re Republican or Democrat, this is what we do for the taxpayers of this country.”

“After citizens rejected the parcel tax, we began rethinking how we engage with our residents. It was clear the status quo wouldn’t work if we wanted to maintain support for revenue streams critical to serving students.”

“Though our population has grown 16 percent since 2010, we’d maintained our staffing levels with no new hires since before the Recession. We realized that, at some point, we had to increase staffing to maintain service levels, and we determined we needed new public works and parks employees just to stay on top of everything.”

“OpenGov makes it possible for the staff to compare trends with weather patterns and project future recreation revenue in easy-to-understand charts.”

“Given the city’s limited resources and growing service demands a reality other municipalities know all too well – we needed to increase department heads’ engagement with critical, relevant data that impacts their work.”

“We received a lot of feedback that the data we provided wasn’t easy to understand or work with.”

“We know we operate in a boom and bust sector. Every time things are good, we don’t just spend and hire because we can, because we know there’s eventually going to be a bust.”

“OpenGov gave managers, elected officials, and citizens one place to go for key information without having to manually integrate legacy financial systems.”

“The biggest challenge is that most communities are funded through sales or property taxes. Budgets are predicated on having growing populations to pay for infrastructure projects, etc. In my opinion, that growth trajectory is not sustainable. The challenge comes when budgets are predicated on continual growth, and then the actual growth starts to slow down.”