PORT ANGELES — Clallam County had its seventh consecutive clean audit this year, county officials said.
Clallam is the only county out of nine covered by a state auditor’s office audit team to have had back-to-back clean audits in the past seven years, County Administrator Jim Jones said.
“Word’s getting around,” Jones said in Tuesday’s board meeting.
“We have clean audits, and my fellow administrators ask me, ‘How do you guys do it?’ ”
Jones attributed the county’s audit success to an extra layer of financial review performed by treasurer’s office Senior Accountant Kay Stevens, auditor’s office Chief Accountant Stan Creasey and Budget Director Debi Cook.
“It is the sum total result of many administrative people who kind of labor in the shadows and their diligence in attending to all the details of procurements, financial reporting and recording,” Commissioner Jim McEntire said.
“And that happens throughout all of county government. So results such as this can’t occur without everybody pitching in and everybody doing a good job.”
Exit conference
The state auditor’s office presented its findings to commissioners at an exit conference Monday.
“In particular, there was some extensive auditing of the federal dollars that we get in various and sundry grants that typically involve some problems,” McEntire said.
“And due to the great diligence of the sheriff’s office, the health and human services department and the road department, no problems or issues were found.”
Commissioner Mike Chapman said Wednesday the results of the audit are a “reflection of the team and the good work that our people do.”
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