City Slicker State Auditors Make Fun of "Good Ole Boy" King Co. Bookkeeping

"Construction Site" courtesy of Seattlest Flickr pool member robohit

Earlier this week, the County got knocked around by the the Washington State Auditor’s Office for their lackluster bookkeeping skillz. (We checked, no accounting positions are open yet.) Many county files were missing, which ended an early attempt to audit County doings.

Provided with limited information, the state's auditors still managed to unveil a few--okay, a lot--of big red flags within King County's financial system, including poor construction management (What's a statewide construction project and budget tracking system?), poor cash and inventory management (loose control of cash fares collected on buses, the tracking of ammunition inventory for the Sheriff's Office, and top-down oversight on cash receipts, expenditures, and assets), and many more potential opportunities for the County to abuse and misuse public resources.