Transparent Government

Web Transparency Checklist For Special Districts

Our agency strives to provide constituemts, members, and citizens information to help them fully understand our mission, administration, and operations.  This page helps locate important information related to transparency based on recommendations for administrative and financial data disclosure and best practices.  Not all recommendations shown here apply to our agency, however we've provided links to help you locate available information online.  If you need information that is not posted online, or have diffficulty locating a document, please feel free to contact us. 

Overview	Mission Statement (“What we do”), description of services/functions, and boundary of service area
Budget	Budget for current fiscal year, budget for the past three years, and financial reserves policy
Meetings	Board meeting schedule, and archive of Board meeting agendas & minutes for at least the last 6 months
Elected & Appointed Officials	Board members (names, contact info, terms of office, compensation, and biography), election procedure and deadlines, and reimbursement and compensation policy
Administrative Officials	General manager and key staff (names, contact info, compensation, and benefits)
Audits	Current audit and audits for the past three years
Contracts	Current requests for proposals and bidding opportunities (more than $25,000 in value), instructions on how to submit a bid or proposal, approved vendor contracts (more than $25,000 in value)
Public Records	Online/downloadable Public Records Act (or FOIA) request form
Revenue Sources	Summary of fees received and summary of revenue sources
District Specific	Authorizing statute/enabling act (Principle Act or Special Act)