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Require project-by-project reporting of federal money sent to local governments

To: your members of Congress

Counties received $48.5 billion in federal pandemic relief. More than half was reported only as "revenue replacement," so the public can't trace it to what it bought. We ask Congress to require that federal money sent to local governments be reported project by project — what it paid for, who was paid, and what it delivered.

When it reaches the goal it’s handed to the officials named above at a public meeting, and their answer is posted online. This is a petition to your elected officials — like the clipboard at the courthouse door. It does not put anything on the ballot; that takes the state’s official petition process. Names are never shown publicly. County Commons — an independent, nonpartisan public-records project.