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: Budget book archived; layout not yet parsed.
Verified Check
Charleston 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
Charleston'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 document →PDFcharleston-budget-2026.pdf10.0 MB · fetched Sep 24, 2026sha-256 194b4d374ae83bf22a92528c7f3e90fb73d2e57a7f37e2a6ea391b884f9dc3a6
Retrieved directly from www.charleston-sc.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.