Where does transparency fit into that type of large scale accounting?
Dan Fletcher: Accountability says we got $16 million and we know what we did with it and we know what we accomplished with it. The transparency is saying, here’s all the things that we did with it and here’s all the places that the money went. For example the transparency used to be that we had these financial statements and we had these metrics and we put them out there for public consumption. Now it is what underlies those metrics, and so how many miles of road, where is that road, who benefits from that road, who participated in that road? That’s the level of transparency that we have today. That’s the transparency that folks want to have and they can have today. We’re now starting to see geo-spatial data tied with it, so you can click on a map and go right toward dollars spent. That’s amazing transparency that we are right on the cusp of.” Ron Tull: Accounting for FY 2009 will include money from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, it sounds like the bar will be raised
