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A budget transparency website you, the taxpayer, paid five million dollars to develop may never see the light of day. The website, transparency 2.0, was built and made available to some state government insiders, but now it’s caught in a funding battle. The site gathers public information about state spending and contracts, but if the public can’t review it, government watchdogs like Dan Krassner says, it serves no purpose.

“This site may never see the light of day, so the public who wants to follow our money and make sure there’s not waste, wants to hold our government accountable, may never see a website paid for with five million dollars of our money,” said Krassner.

Senate President Don Gaetz, says the website isn’t being made public for financial reasons. The private company running the site charges a million dollar annual maintenance fee, plus extra to make the site available to everyone. Gaetz says he’s reviewing the company’s contract.