The City of Murfreesboro is rearranging information on its website to ensure that we can be transparent about our finances and meetings.  The City wants to make it easier and less confusing for citizens to access the city’s financial documents. 

“During our recent city management conference, I noticed that many of the educational sessions featured sessions on transparency in local government.  Upon returning from the conference, we thought it would be helpful to better organize some of the website information to help our citizens find it more quickly,” said City Manager Rob Lyons.    

“The new web page will be called ‘Open Government’ and we hope this adjustment is beneficial – we want to be as transparent as possible," he continued. "We have a very educated, informed and participative citizenry.  Providing information about our finances, meetings and boards and commissions can help residents get more information about their city and will aid in our decision-making conversations.  Communication and openness are foundations of excellent relationships.”

“Much of this information has already been available on the web site for a long time,” Murfreesboro’s webmaster Chris Shofner, said, “but instead of citizens having to look for what they want, we’re creating a much easier way to access it.”

From this single “Open Government” page, the information will include:

• Independent financial audits of the city’s finances for the last five years

• A recently adopted set of written financial policies

• A link to videos of city meetings and other original programming produced by Murfreesboro’s City Channel

• A link to a list of citizen representatives on the city’s various boards and commissions.

• Information about the city’s policies on public records.