Partners with ClearGov to Bring Clarity to Government Finances

The Town of Medway announced on May 1, 2017 that it has partnered with ClearGov, a leading municipal transparency and benchmarking platform, to launch an infographic-based fiscal transparency center.

The new tool provides taxpayers an easy-to-understand, visual breakdown of Medway finances, as well as insights into the Town’s demographics.  The site also informs visitors as to how each budget item compares to neighboring communities.

The Town is part of a growing movement of Massachusetts municipalities that are taking transparency to a new level on ClearGov platform, which also showcases basic profiles of every municipality in the state. The Town has added detailed revenues and expenditures breakdowns of its General Fund, as well as Debt.

“We are very pleased to introduce ClearGov to Medway,” said Glenn Trindade, Chair of the Board of Selectmen. “The Town is constantly trying to improve communication and increased understanding about municipal operations, and this is another important step to bringing increased transparency to our residents,” he said. Medway has made this new portal available on the homepage of the town’s website  www.medwayma.gov . Visitors to the site can click on “Transparent and Open Government” on the bottom of the homepage to get to Medway’s ClearGov page.

ClearGov sources publicly available financial data on municipalities to create easy-to- understand transparency websites for thousands of municipalities across the United States, which are made available to the public for free. Medway has chosen to upgrade and enhance our publicly available transparency site with more robust information and to provide context through commentary on the figures.