OpenGovs holds this city's official budget document, fetched directly from the government's own website. Its numbers are not published yet — the document's layout needs a parser before anything can be extracted.
The document above is archived and fingerprinted, but its appropriation table has no parser yet, and OpenGovs does not publish figures it cannot reconcile against the document's own printed totals. Adding a city means pointing the extractor at the right table in city.json; the extractor refuses the table unless the rows sum to the total the city printed. See ADD_A_CITY.md. Screening result: Readable text but no known layout matched. Found: 'GRAND TOTAL', 'TOTAL APPROPRIATION', 'Capital Outlay'.
Verified Check
Cambridge can publish a live vendor register, itemized cards, and named payroll. While those files are current, the city carries a public Verified Check — the most transparent mark on the map. The badge comes off if a month is missed.
Open the monthly feed →Budget Simulator
Cambridge's adopted book is not extracted yet. The simulator turns on once the city is mapped — same A/B/C upload, vs estimated, then learned.
See mapped cities →- Open at the city →PDFcambridge-budget-2027.pdf137.3 MB · fetched Sep 20, 2026
137MB — larger than the 100MB file limit our code host allows, so the copy we screened stays on the machine that fetched it. The checksum identifies that copy; the link goes to the city's own.
sha-256 6407a16c4a641c054a746972974221088070444f15c28dce5ee8fa93b921727d
Retrieved directly from www.cambridgema.gov with the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded in the city's manifest.json
Verified provenance means we can prove where the file came from and that it has not been altered — it is not a claim that a person has checked the numbers yet.