The City’s budget year. For Dallas, it runs October 1 through September 30.
About this project
How to trust—and question—this site
Civic Transparency is an independent public-interest project. It is not the City of Dallas and is not presented as an official City website.
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How to read Dallas money
No government experience needed. These words keep approvals, estimates, and actual payments from being confused.
8 common termsSee the short, plain-English meaningsOpen guide
An idea under consideration. It is not approved and may change.
Council allowed the action or spending limit. It does not mean the money was paid.
The most the City is allowed to pay under that contract. Actual payments may be lower.
The City’s current estimate of where spending will end. It is not the final amount.
One full-time job’s worth of hours. A decimal may combine part-time positions.
From the start of the stated budget year through the date shown—not a complete year.
The official records reviewed here did not provide a verified answer.
Simple rule: summaries spell out shortened names. If Dallas does not publish enough detail, this site says Unknown instead of guessing.
Evidence watch
What happens when an official record changes
The automated gate checks official evidence every six hours. A changed document must be reviewed before its claim is republished.
Current 911, contract, and police evidence in the registry.
A silent PDF replacement is treated as a change, not the same evidence.
Do not publish the affected claim until its amount, status, dates, and wording are checked again.
This is a gate—not a guarantee. A working link can still contain incomplete information. Missing ownership, invoice, overlap, or performance details remain labeled unknown.
Method
What “checked” means
Checked does not mean a claim is complete forever. It means the displayed claim was compared with the linked official evidence on the stated date.
Open the official record
Use a City dataset, agenda, contract, audit, budget document, meeting video, or other primary public record.
Separate the stage
Scheduled, proposed, approved, contracted, invoiced, paid, forecast, and estimated are not treated as the same thing.
Check the math
Calculated totals are labeled as calculations. Conflicts, missing dates, unexplained amounts, and source limitations stay visible.
Keep the proof
Residents can open the source. When the record does not answer a question, the site says “unknown” instead of guessing.
Corrections
How errors are handled
Corrections require evidence. Send the exact page, statement, and official source through the project repository. A factual correction will not be conditioned on payment, sponsorship, approval, or removal of another verified finding.
Submit a documented correction ↗Funding & conflicts
What money cannot buy
Public facts stay public
Essential resident information, sources, corrections, and status labels will not be placed behind a paywall.
No favorable coverage
No City department, vendor, sponsor, or customer may buy a ranking, remove a verified finding, or delay publication.
Relationships must be disclosed
If this project receives money from Dallas, a City vendor, a sponsor, or a grantmaker, that relationship and its possible conflict will be listed here.
Ideas stay separate
Unproven product ideas, pricing, and sales plans are private work—not City policy, verified savings, or content for the public record.
Primary sources