City of Ft. Pierce Launches API's Web-based Fiscal Transparency Portal

    BOCA RATON, FL, January 27, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- It is the responsibility of The City of Ft. Pierce to take action on the concerns of citizens and local business owners. The city also manages budgeting and decides how to allocate the funds. In addition, the city maintains water, sewer, waste management police, and road maintenance. The City of Ft. Pierce chose API's Fiscal Transparency Portal to comply with open government transparency initiatives.

The web-based financial transparency portal is user-friendly and provides citizens and City staff a transparent view of how funds are invested in the delivery of outstanding services. The Fiscal Transparency tool may be launched by visiting The City of Fort Pierce Fiscal Transparency Portal. Johnna Morris, Finance Director, stated "I evaluated the top fiscal transparency software solutions in the marketplace. After seeing API's Fiscal Transparency Portal, we quickly moved to acquire it, as I believe it offers the most user-friendly solution for citizens and staff and presents Fort Pierce's annual budget in an easy to use and understandable way."

Users may now view financial and spending records by launching the City's Financial Transparency Portal via the internet, giving citizens access to how the City spends its tax dollars. The Financial Transparency Portal offers current fiscal year comparisons on revenue and spending for all departments and actual information for the proceeding four fiscal years. Users may drill down to finite details by category or specific department or scale up to view the overall fiscal health of the City. Users can also download the data as an Excel spreadsheet.

API is a Sungard approved solutions provider of document management solutions; including mPower, OptiView, OptiSpool, AgendaMaker and more. OptiView integrates easily with any ERP software and provides end-to-end secure scanning and storage of all sensitive records. API's Fiscal Transparency Portal key features include; an executive dashboard, revenue and expense views side-by-side as well as comparison of budget to actual for both expenditures and revenues. Kathi Pletzke, Transparency Technology Director at API, comments "I see the Fiscal Transparency Portal rollout at Fort Pierce as just the beginning, because we firmly believe in the benefits of this solution." "This is the first step towards the possibilities and the promise that can come as more citizens across the country are empowered by the knowledge that Fiscal Transparency provides," stated Pletzke.

Advanced Processing & Imaging offers user friendly workflow systems & document management which increases business and staff efficiency while reducing costs and improving business intelligence. API is also a leading provider of a suite of cloud based software tools which includes contract automation, employee on boarding, electronic cumulative folder, invoice process solutions, and fiscal transparency.

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