A state agency normally known for enforcing financial transparency in other agencies is flipping the script on itself.
The North Carolina Office of the State Auditor (NCOSA) just announced that it published a new internal budget dashboard on its website in a bid to deliver better government transparency.
“By opening access to our office’s spending, we’re leading the charge to create a more transparent government in North Carolina,” State Auditor Dave Boliek said in a press release. “This resource is easily accessible online and should be a new standard of government transparency. The Office of the State Auditor has a mission to hold government accountable, and that includes shining a light on our own office.”
By opening access to our office’s spending, we’re leading the charge to create a more transparent government in North Carolina. This resource is easily accessible online and should be a new standard of government transparency. The Office of the State Auditor has a mission to hold… pic.twitter.com/mgYm3bF66o
— State Auditor Dave Boliek (@NCAuditorBoliek) July 22, 2025
Since taking office, he said he has pushed for more detailed public resources to enhance accountability and transparency.
The dashboard, a first of its kind, features a breakdown of NCOSA’s revenue sources, expenses, and spending by vendor for state fiscal year 2025. Items displayed include how much the office received from audit fees, the amount of state funds carried forward to the following year, and expenses including payroll and software services
It will be updated again in August and periodically after that, to allow the public to analyze trends and compare spending over time.
NC financial snapshot dashboard and helene recovery dashboard update
The dashboard joins two other dashboards under the dashboards tab on the website: NC Financial Snapshot and Helene Recovery Dashboards.
For the NC Financial Snapshot dashboard, the NCOSA pulls data from the North Carolina Office of the State Controller’s NC Cash Watch report showing the state’s cash balance, how much is reserved, and how much is available. As of July 22, the state had $9.21 billion in cash, $7.46 billion in total reserved cash, and $1.75 billion in the unreserved cash balance.
The Helene Recovery Dashboard lists three tabs: Housing, Helene Expenditures, and GROW NC. As of July 22, 7,055 households were still displaced, 2,342 were housed, 566 households were seeking assistance, and 4,147 households had not utilized assistance since the storm hit western North Carolina 297 days ago. The dashboard also shows that six state temporary housing units are currently occupied.
Under Helene Expenditures, as of July 22, $2.6 billion of the $3.6 billion budget has been spent. The tab also gives the total spend for the top 10 projects by account description, total spend by agency, and running total of spend relative to total budget. It also shows that there are currently 209 ongoing projects.
The GROW NC tab shows that as of July 22, there are an estimated $1.31 million in annual payroll expenditures and over $1.4 billion in actual operational expenditures to date.