Last verified 2026-11-14
About JournalLedger
A public record of commitments the City of Austin makes in writing when it responds to its own City Auditor.
What this is
When the Austin City Auditor publishes a performance audit, the report usually includes recommendations and a management response — often “Agree,” sometimes with a proposed implementation date and a responsible department.
JournalLedger turns those responses into a ledger of promises: who said they would do what, by when, in which report, on which page. Each entry links back to the archived source PDF.
We cover audit reports from 2023 to present. Every entry is checked by a person against the source PDF before it appears here. If a detail isn’t printed in the report — especially a deadline — it isn’t filled in.
How to read a status
- pending
- The City agreed (or otherwise committed) and we have not yet recorded evidence that the commitment was kept or broken.
- kept
- A reviewer recorded evidence that the commitment was fulfilled.
- broken
- A reviewer recorded evidence that the commitment was not fulfilled as stated.
- disputed
- Credible conflict — for example, a department claims completion and a later auditor follow-up disagrees.
- overdue
- Not a stored status. The site labels a promise overdue when it is still pending and today’s date is past the committed implementation date.
What a promise page shows
The recommendation language (as published), management response, department, deadline if one was printed, a source excerpt with page number, links to the hosted PDF / Wayback / original URL, and a history of status changes with notes and evidence.
If a field is missing, it was not found verbatim in the source. We do not fill gaps by inference — especially deadlines.
What this is not
Not an official City site. Not a complete map of every City promise — only commitments that appear in published City Auditor reports we have reviewed. Not a court finding: “broken” and “kept” are editorial judgments grounded in cited evidence, open to correction when better evidence appears.
Sources & updates
Primary sources are PDFs from austintexas.gov/auditor, stored with checksums and linked from each promise. The “last verified” date on each page is when a human last confirmed or updated that record.
Status changes also appear in the RSS feed. Browse by department or return to all promises.