* Payments to individuals identified in the system (i.e., benefit, foster care, crime victim payments, etc.), not including expenditures to employees, were removed to protect against the inadvertent disclosure of records that may be protected under federal or state law or contractual requirements.
* Payments to employees whose records are specifically protected from disclosure based on a protective court order were removed. Payments to all other employeesare included.
* Any payment that did not include a vendor name within SFMA was removed. Many agencies use subsystems to generate checks and only provide SFMA with summary information.
* System entries related to vendors with negative amounts (i.e., credit amounts) were removed.
This multi-year expenditure report does not include credit entries if the vendor line item was negative in total, nor does it include reimbursements by third parties for travel (e.g State of Oregon employee travel paid for, partially or in full, by the US Government, by conference organizers, etc.). This may cause expenditures listed in the report to be overstated, as the credit portion of these types of transactions may be excluded.
This report does not include information on expenditures for the Oregon Lottery, Oregon Universites, or semi-independent agencies, boards, or commissions.