You may remember that I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Peoria Civic Center to get a copy of their “itemized budget.” Here’s the response I received from them in today’s mail:
PCCA FY2008 Budget (PDF, 1.3M, 35 pages)
Actually, I got it in a nifty blue report cover with colorful dividing tabs. One page is even in color. What you will see, though, is a black and white PDF copy of it with the dividers removed (however, if you use the “bookmarks” feature on Adobe Acrobat, you can see where the divisions were and what they are titled).
The original information the Civic Center Authority gave the City Council included:
- Budget Highlights
- Statement of Income
- Schedule of Events
- Capital Expenditures Budget
The information I received today has all of that, plus this information:
- Budget Ordinance
- Budget Narrative by Shaun Schoonover, Director of Finance
- Statement of Cash Flows
- Indirect Expenses
- Capital Expenditures Budget [Detail]
- Fiscal Year 2008 Business Plan Narrative
It certainly is more detail than was disclosed before–especially the “Indirect Expenses” page. Take a look at it and let me know what you think. Have they come clean and vindicated themselves?
[...] C.J. has two posts up, one linking to the PDF file that they emailed to him that looks pretty much like the full-budget, or at [...]
Good work, C. J. Thanks for being a tough watchdog.
From page 33 under Increase Revenues, “Support a regional H tax approach through PACVB disscussions with tri-county mayors and influencers by facilitating regular meetings of this group, thus reinforcing the ‘Peoria area as a destination’ focus of PACVB” Has making the HRA (or at least the H part) regional been proposed before? It is a little funny that convincing more people to give you tax money is considered increasing revenue.