Case Study: Rio Blanco County improves budgeting transparency and efficiency with ClearGov

Rio Blanco County, CO - Customer Case Study

Rio Blanco County, CO turned to ClearGov to replace a manual, spreadsheet-based budgeting process that required multiple linked workbooks, repeated data entry, and time-consuming reconciliation. The county also needed a better way to communicate budget changes and spending decisions transparently to residents, especially as shrinking revenues and public demand for more accessible financial information increased pressure on the budgeting process.

Using ClearGov’s cloud-based budgeting and Digital Budget Book tools, Rio Blanco County streamlined budget requests, improved collaboration across departments, and made it easier to track capital project requests and supporting documents in one place. ClearGov also helped the county produce a more detailed, ADA-accessible online budget book and eliminate printed workshop materials. Department heads were able to get started in under 20 minutes, and the county expects faster budget turnaround times, with plans to start next year’s process earlier and reuse historical data instead of rebuilding spreadsheets from scratch.

Rio Blanco County, CO

Eric Jaquez

Operations Administrator