What is your municipality paying for?
Explore public records, technology contracts, software spending, procurement and other municipal costs — and ask whether taxpayers are getting value for their money. Everything here is framed around factual, sourced questions. We never publish unsupported claims.
The questions we ask
- How much is the municipality paying?
- What services were purchased?
- What is actually being used?
- What are the ongoing annual costs?
- Were projects delivered on time and budget?
- What measurable benefit did taxpayers receive?
- Were Canadian suppliers or alternatives considered?
Answers come from public records: budgets, financial statements, council reports, procurement documents and freedom-of-information responses. Where records are confidential, we say so — confidentiality is lawful and common, and it is never treated as proof of wrongdoing.
Research categories
Municipal technology spending & Oracle research
Enterprise software licensing, cloud contracts and ERP systems (including Oracle products) are among the largest recurring technology costs a municipality carries. This research category collects public records on what was purchased, what it costs each year, and what is measurably in use — factual questions only, no unsupported claims.
Procurement & contracts
Tenders, sole-source awards, change orders and vendor confidentiality — what the public record shows about how buying decisions were made.
Capital projects
Budgets versus actuals, timelines and delivered outcomes for roads, facilities and infrastructure.
Municipal accountability research is separate from the Witness Your Vote declaration system. It never uses voter data, and findings are always presented as sourced facts and open questions — not conclusions.