That is where the report issued to the King County government by the Washington State Auditor’s Office will end up.
King County’s internal financial controls are a haphazard mishmash of systems with plenty of holes for potential abuse of public funds, a state audit released Monday concluded.
Investigators from the Washington State Auditor’s Office found selected country construction projects cost $26 million more than initially authorized and that jobs are often completed late but rarely with a contractor penalty for tardiness. Rare, too, was any county audit of how it spent millions on construction projects.
Auditors also discovered a vault filled with money from transit fares was left open. And they found nearly $13,000 in checks that had accumulated on the desk of one county employee who didn’t know what to with them.
It’s not their money, so why should they care what happens to it?