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: 'Personal Services', 'Capital Outlay'.
Verified Check
Lowell 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
Lowell'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 →PDFlowell-budget-2026.pdf154.3 MB · fetched Sep 20, 2026
154MB — 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 0606e2757601e683a430a652426a325d9ace740724f7500a96074e2c996e3157
Retrieved directly from www.lowellma.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.