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County Commons · countycommons.us · White County, Arkansas

See where the money goes. Say what your town needs. Bring your neighbors.

It's your money and your town. Look at every dollar — and where it came from. Say what your street or your county needs. Get your neighbors behind it, and we hand it to the people who decide, then show you what they did. Free. No account. Plain words.

SEE IT · SAY IT · RALLY YOUR NEIGHBORS · HOLD THEM TO IT

Every dollar shown where it came from. Every voice counted honestly. Every claim you can check yourself — including this one.

76/76 budget checks pass ✓
Raise your voice — put a priority on the record →

See it in two minutes — what this site lets you do

Click through the four moves — see the money, say what you want, rally your neighbors, hold them to it. Or just scroll.

Step 1 of 7

See where the money goes. Then have your say.

This is County Commons — a free, independent way to follow every public dollar in White County, and to push, together, for what your community actually needs. In two minutes, here's what it lets you do. Not a government website.
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Step 2 of 7

Follow every dollar to its source.

The money trail lays out the whole budget, biggest pieces first. Click any number and you get the exact document it came from and the page — and the arithmetic is re-added in public, so it adds up to the dollar. No spin, just the receipt.
Public safety cited ✓Roads cited ✓Health & welfare cited ✓Everything else cited ✓

→ Open the money trail

Step 3 of 7

When the trail goes dark, it says so.

Some money can’t be traced with the documents that exist yet — a lump line, a vendor no record names. Those aren’t hidden; each becomes a numbered item on the docket, an open ask for the missing record. A dead end means “not navigable yet,” never “hidden.”
$1.84M — ??? → on the docket

→ See the docket

Step 4 of 7

Say what your community needs.

Put a priority on the record — a skate park, a crosswalk, hiring local for a project, food as a utility, publishing the school budget — and say why. Or answer an open yes/no question. No account, one voice per sitting, and you choose how much about yourself to share.
YES NO

→ The priorities board · open questions

Step 5 of 7

Rally your neighbors — and watch the count.

Others back what they share, so the strongest-felt priorities rise on their own. A live count reaches for a threshold sized to your community, the way real petitions are. When enough neighbors back the same thing, it’s printed and hand-delivered to the people who decide.
290 of 400 neighbors then hand-delivered
Step 6 of 7

Hold them to it — in the open.

Delivered isn’t the end. Every priority is tracked through raised → delivered → answered → acted, each step dated and cited to a real source. When an ask sits unanswered, the days are shown. The platform never invents an outcome — it records what officials actually did.
Raised Delivered Answered Acted

→ What came of it

Step 7 of 7

Now go make a difference.

You’ve seen how it works — city, county, state, nation, a board for each. Don’t stop at reading. Do one of two things: provide a solution — a clear, cited proposal others can back — or circulate a question and get your neighbors on the record. It computes and cites; it never tells you what to want. Your money, made plain, and your voice, made impossible to miss.
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Provide a solution → Circulate a question →

Or jump straight to any county or city.

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This is your petition — open-ended, and with receipts

Not a one-off signature that disappears into an inbox. A standing place where a community can see what government is doing, say what should change, rally behind it, and hold the outcome to the light — on your town, in your state, and nationally. Every step is public and checkable, and nobody's voice is for sale.

Start where you are — four doors, no account, no app

If you're in a hard spot

Food, the light bill, rent, benefits — the real local options with phone numbers and hours. This page gives; it never asks.

Find help →
Where the money goes

$51,279,176.75 across 33 funds — walk it from the total to the line a deputy's salary lives on. Every number cites its page.

Follow the money →
Be counted

Questions put to residents, answered by residents.

Answer the question →
Show up

Every public meeting, computed live.

See the calendar →
The pursuit ledger

Every gap in the record, named and numbered — and stamped in public when it gets filled. Watch the record complete itself.

See the docket →
The document shelf

3 public documents — budgets, audits, minutes, ordinances — indexed and cited, with source files hashed and archived as they're obtained.

Search the documents →
Why this exists

The story, the creed, and a ledger of every claim this platform makes about itself — each one checkable.

Read the story →
Make it travel

Share a question with a neighbor, put a QR code on a corkboard, bring this to your church or your shop. Traction is the product.

Get involved →

More rooms: who gets paid · what the auditors reported · how White County compares · the precedents · the research shelf · where we stand · the receipt · how it's secured · the plain-words tour.

Why a name and a number here counts — plain and simple

A shout at a meeting is one voice. A post online is noise with no name. Here your voice is counted honestly, and you choose how much to share and how private to stay. Weigh in with no account at all and it counts as open feeling. Or add as much as you like — your name, your town, that you live here — kept private in a locked file, shown only to county officials if they ask to check the count is real, and never published unless you choose to. Most people keep it private; that's the point. The more you're willing to show them, the harder your vote is to wave off — a room of real, verifiable neighbors is a fact an official has to answer, not an anonymous click.

And it goes somewhere. When 1550 neighbors back the same thing, we print it and hand it to the people who decide — your county board, your city council, your school board — and stamp the delivery in the open. They don't have to agree. They do have to receive it, and what they do next is on the record either way. This has worked where it's been tried, from town meetings to Taiwan.

Why 1550? Estimated at about 5% of a normal turnout for 76,822 residents, until we load the real vote count. It's the same kind of measure real petitions use — a share of the people who actually vote, not a number we picked. How the threshold works.

The record so far — stamped in public, one pursuit at a time

#1 · Ingest White County’s 2026 budget ✓ complete

$51,279,177 across 33 funds. The largest: County General Fund ($11,440,443), Law Enforcement Tax Fund ($11,166,175), County Road Fund ($10,108,638). Every total marked complete adds to its parts to the cent; where the…

The full pursuit ledger — every gap named, every completion dated: the docket.

Put yourself on the record — optional, as much or as little as you like Rules of engagement

Anyone can answer questions here with no account at all. Registering is what turns your answer into the kind an official can't wave off — a count backed by real, reachable people. Every field is optional.

The only use of this information, in full: it stays in a private file on our server, separate from the votes, and is never published anywhere — with one exception that is always yours to choose: the announce box puts your name, town, and answer on the question page, until you uncheck it. The one other use — the reason registration exists — is to let a count be verified as real people the way a petition's signatures can be checked: if an official questions whether a result is genuine, we can confirm the registrations behind it are real, and only that. Never sold, never handed to anyone for any other purpose, never used for marketing. Remove yours any time: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.

County Commons · the counting room

Rules of engagement

  • One person, one voice — please vote once. No account needed; you can change your answer any time while your window stays open, and your last answer is the one that counts. Registered votes that share an email or phone collapse to the newest automatically, and the count says how many were cleared.
  • Everyone can answer. The resident question is self-reported and always labeled that way. Verification tiers come later; every count will always show how verified it is.
  • Counts update instantly. Tier 0 answers are anonymous, so exact counts identify no one and display from the very first vote. When the verified tiers arrive, small verified counts will render as ranges — in a small town, a small named count can identify people.
  • An anonymous count can be padded — we say so on purpose. Because Tier 0 takes no verification, a determined person can inflate the raw number. That is the weakness the verification tiers (phone, residency, voter-file) exist to close. Today's counts are open sentiment, never proof — and a public signature by real name is worth more than a hundred anonymous taps.
  • Registration is optional — as much or as little as you like. It has one use, stated in full where you enter it: kept private, never published, shown to a county or city official only to verify a count is real people, on request. Never sold, never anything else. Removable any time.
  • Nothing follows you home. The moment your browser window closes, this device forgets who was here — on purpose, so a shared or public computer never shows the next person your answers. Answers already counted stay counted; registered details stay safe on our server.
  • Announcing is the loud version — and always your choice. The count is anonymous, period. If you want to be heard by name, check the announce box when you register: your name, town, and answer go on the question page, petition-style — and unchecking takes them down. Self-signed and unverified until the tiers arrive; misused names removed on request, with removals logged.
  • These counts are unofficial. Not an election, not a referendum, not a petition. Their only weight is that the counting is published and checkable.
  • At 1550 responses, the result travels. We print the packet and hand-deliver it to the body that decides, and stamp the delivery publicly.
  • Bright lines. No votes on races or on live ballot measures, no campaign language, and nothing aimed at non-elected staff. Elected officials and candidates can be named and their conduct raised; every candidate in a race gets the same treatment. The platform computes and cites; it never takes sides.
  • Every count is checkable — the tally is re-added in public and the activity log is hash-chained and anchored where we can't rewrite it.

Why you can trust it — you don't have to; you can check

First, know what this is: an independent, citizen-built project — not a government website. Nothing here is official; White County's own site is whitecounty.ar.gov. This platform is the layer in between: where the county's money becomes navigable, its questions get counted, and — as it grows — the projects it decides it wants find their footing.

This platform renders no verdicts and takes no sides. Every number links to its source document. The arithmetic re-adds itself in public. The activity log is hash-chained and anchored where we can't rewrite it. The code is public to the last line. And the standard pointed at us first: our story, our stance, our nevers.