THE CITY OF SANDY 2007-09
BIENNIAL BUDGET
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The City of Sandy welcomes public input into the
budget process, and we want to make the budget document available to as many
members of the community as possible. In the past, the size and expense of the
printed budget document has limited its circulation. And even if we could afford
to mail it to every Sandy resident and business, the printed format is--by its
nature--often difficult to navigate.
This web-based budget document now gives us the
tool to overcome these problems. It makes the city's budget available to every
household and business in the city (or in the world, for that matter). By using
hyperlinks, the reader can easily move to any level of detail, and quickly
navigate through the document at will.
This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer,
using a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768. Free high-speed Internet
access is available to Sandy residents and businesses at the Sandy Public
Library, the Sandy Community Center, and City Hall.
A broadband connection is not necessary. Even
readers with high-speed connections will experience a slight pause as some of
the pages are opened, because this is a dynamic document. FINANCIAL TABLES ARE
RECALCULATED EVERY TIME A PAGE IS OPENED, based on a live budget database. This
means that any member of the community will see the same information that the
City Council sees, and at the same time. As the City Council makes changes to
the budget, these changes will be reflected immediately in the on-line database.
This is a significant departure from most cities, which publish their budgets
after the fact as a static document (typically as a facsimile of a printed
document, using Adobe Acrobat).
To Get Started: Use the navigation bars,
above, or the index below to zero in on the area of the budget you're most
interested in. Or, browse through the entire budget by starting with the
Budget Message. We have provided
links at the bottom of each page to allow a reader to browse through the entire
document without missing one of the (fascinating) pages.
For review: The
2003-05 Budget and
2005-07 Budget
documents in pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format (2MB, so best downloaded with
SandyNet High Speed Internet access!)
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