County Budget Data
The Pottawattamie County website provides only two years of budgeting records, which makes comparisons between planned and actual budget records impossible. No other budgeting context is provided. The Iowa Department of Management maintains five years of records, which supports comparisons between estimated and realized annual budgets. The budget records in a downloadable excel format are available by clicking on the button.
Budget transparency is critical to understanding how D.O.G.E. efforts can work for taxpayers. Pottawattamie County is unique in the top ten populated Iowa counties for its lack of budget data or context. The taxpayers of Pottawattamie County deserve information in an available and understandable format.