I got an email from Dave Burris this morning with the press release from the Caesar Rodney Institute telling me about their newest tool. Delaware Spends is an online tool (with cool web 2.0 features) that will help make it easier to see where money is going. Essentially is is an online checkbook ledger with some good search criteria. I took it for a spin to see if I could suss out the savings for the elimination of Gary Pfeiffer’s salary at the Department of Finance.
Between salary and benefits, Mr. Pfeiffer cost us $89,721 so far in 2009. So the savings to the state for him is roughly double that per year. So, 180K down, $879,820,000 to go!
This could be fun, but please search responsibly.