A rough idea of what a public budget dashboard can look like. This would be backed by a full printed budget report with detailed numbers.

Mendocino County budget flow FY 2024-25

All-funds financing sources $684.6M rounded to the nearest $0.1 million. This is an example of what a budget coukd look like based on real Mendocino data, however without complete access to the financial data not everything could be shown corrently. For example, the "Function" column should also show Department, however that was not easliy available without internal data.

Mendocino County FY 2024-25 budget Sankey diagram Budget flows from financing sources through major fund types, into County functions and reserve provisions, then to five governmental object series, other-fund expenditures, or reserves. Hover or focus a flow to see its amount. Function groups do not list departments. Links from fund types to functions and functions to spending series are proportional estimates.

Hover a flow for its amount, or hover or tap a node to trace connected flows.

Source: adopted budget Schedules 1, 2, 6D, and 7..

Hover or tap a section (vertical line) to see what money flows into and out of it. For this draft, for best functionality use a computer rather than mobile device. The sections are:

Source: Revenue coming in

Fund Type: What fund that goes into

Function / fund use: the purpose of expenditure

Spending Category: What type of expenditure