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: Matches 'US New Hampshire town — adopted budget book (dept + object codes)'. Parser exists — can extract today.
Verified Check
Columbus 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
Columbus'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 →PDFcolumbus-budget-2026.pdf29.0 MB · fetched Sep 13, 2026sha-256 e95d7ce330abdab4aaee714d302a094d4424383f14ac2d612856021c438259ba
Retrieved directly from www.columbus.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.