According to Wallin, the report will be issued quarterly and is designed to provide basic information about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly known as the stimulus package.
AGA’s Citizen-Centric Reporting Program encourages governments to produce and publish quarterly reports of no more than two pages on use of stimulus funds.
“Government fiscal assessments generally read like telephone books, with more pages of footnotes than the average citizen knows what to do with,” said Relmond Van Daniker, AGA executive director. “The Citizen-Centric project is about getting back to what accountants are meant to do – crunch the numbers and make them understandable for the people we serve.”
Van Daniker explained that the two-page report on stimulus funds is a shorter version of an annual, four-page Citizen-Centric Report that has been issued by more than 40 federal, state and local entities, including Nevada. The four-page format was developed and championed by AGA to help inform citizens about the financial condition and performance of the government.
Nevada’s report indicates that through Dec. 31, 2009 the state has spent 85 percent of its stimulus money on education, medical assistance and aid to the unemployed. The report reveals that 84 weatherization assistance projects, averaging $5,608 per project, were completed funding 81 jobs. The Department of Transportation is working on 69 projects, such as the Interstate 80 West interchange in Humboldt County, spending $9.4 million and funding over 40 jobs.
Nevada’s report is available online at www.controller.nv.gov. Additional information on the state’s stimulus funding is available at www.nv.gov/recovery. National information is available at www.recovery.gov.
Post a Comment