Case Study: Contra Costa County modernizes budget book creation with ClearGov

Contra Costa County, CA - Customer Case Study

Contra Costa County, CA, one of California’s largest counties, needed a better way to produce its massive annual budget book. The county’s process was highly manual, built in Microsoft Word, and required around a dozen staff members to manage more than 750 pages and 300 embedded spreadsheet tables while maintaining GFOA award standards. ClearGov helped the county modernize the process and make the budget easier for the public to access and navigate.

Using ClearGov’s Digital Budget Book solution, Contra Costa County shifted to a web-based format with automatically populated pages, built-in GFOA checklist support, and a single source of truth for budget data. The result was a much more user-friendly and efficient process that cut production time by about half, eliminated major manual reconciliation, and improved the experience for both staff and budget viewers.

Contra Costa County, CA