{"id":5703,"date":"2012-03-15T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T21:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2012-03-15T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T21:38:14","slug":"update-f-is-for-flunk-but-also-for-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/15\/update-f-is-for-flunk-but-also-for-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: “F” Is For “Flunk,” But Also For “Funding”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Samantha Wright \/ Boise State Public Radio<\/p>

A spokesman for the state controllers office says creating a transparency website is a priority, but so far there's no funding.<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday, StateImpact<\/em> published a story<\/a> about Idaho’s last-place finish in a government transparency study<\/a>.\u00a0 In it we noted that Idaho was one of only three states that didn’t respond when the study’s initial findings were sent to government officials, requesting comment.\u00a0 It was the Department of Administration’s Bill Burns who received that survey.\u00a0 He wasn’t available yesterday<\/a>, but answered a couple of questions this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Burns said he remembers receiving the request, but didn’t think he was the right person to handle it.\u00a0 “We purchase products and services for state agencies, which does not account for all state spending,” he said.\u00a0 He directed the U.S. Public Interest Research Group to contact the state controller’s office.<\/p>\n

At the state controllers office, Chief of Staff Brandon Woolf didn’t recollect receiving the survey, but he said getting funding for the kind of transparency website U.S. PIRG recommends is a priority.\u00a0 “It has been a goal for six plus years, at least,” Woolf said.\u00a0 “It\u2019s not for a lack of trying.”<\/p>\n

The issue, he said, is funding.\u00a0 “The governor put it into our budget this year, but it was pulled,” Woolf said.\u00a0 “It\u2019s trying to get blood out of a turnip.\u00a0 We realized there was no money over these recent years.\u00a0 We\u2019ve shared that this is a request we\u2019re going to keep bringing up, each of these years we\u2019ve gone before JFAC<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, StateImpact published a story about Idaho’s last-place finish in a government transparency study.\u00a0 In it we noted that Idaho was one of only three states that didn’t respond when the study’s initial findings were sent to government officials, requesting comment.\u00a0 It was the Department of Administration’s Bill Burns who received that survey.\u00a0 He wasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":3506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[235,145],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}