Experiments
One-off tools and visualizations, each exploring a single civic idea.
These are prototypes, not polished products. Each one takes a single question — what does my tax dollar buy, what does a park cost, how is the city organized — and tries to make it intuitive. Some will graduate into permanent pages; others are here to test an idea in public.
Taxpayer Receipt
An itemized "receipt" showing where a Vacaville resident's tax dollars went in FY2024-25, broken down line by line like a store receipt.
Vacaville · FY2024-25Parks Spending Metrics
What it costs to run Vacaville's parks — total spending, cost per park, and cost per acre — built from the FY2025-26 budget and the city's own GIS acreage.
Vacaville · FY2025-26Organizational Strategy Map
An interactive map of how the City of Vacaville is organized — departments, divisions, and strategic priorities — rendered as a navigable diagram.
Vacaville · FY2025-26Checkbook Explorer
Browse individual public payments — vendors, amounts, and categories — to trace where money actually flows through local government.
Solano CountyExperiments are exploratory and may change or disappear. For ongoing efforts, see Projects; for tracked spending, see Public Funds.