Government Transparency

I believe strongly in the right of the people to know what is happening in their government. The concept of a representative republic rests on this. The Texas Open Meetings Act was enacted expressly to make sure of this.  But I want to go a little further. For example; the Hurst budget is published online but it is still hard to figure out what is going on. I will push to have a historical summary added, with all revenues, and all expenditure totals lumped together, then broken out by source and vendor. I want to make the budget understandable to anyone who can balance a checkbook.  Then the citizens of Hurst will be able to make an informed decision about the future and expenditures of our city.