Kauaʻi County annual report

Kauaʻi county publishes an annual report summarizing the activities of each department for the past fiscal year. The 2012-2013 report is just out and can be found here.

The county fiscal year is from July to June, so that means it took nearly 13 months to get the report out this year. I wrote to the mayor's office asking why the delay and with persistence heard this year they took extra time without an explanation of why. Normally the report is out by late fall they said.

A few highlights from reading a few sections:

• County Auditor
• The review of county take-home car policy (notably including the gas the county pays for that allegedly went to personal use) is still in progress.
• County Auditor returned 36% of the budget unused
• County Attorney
• almost $500,000 over budget (apparently unplanned high cost of litigation)
• the county is embroiled in lawsuits against it: well over 100 cases were pending at the start of the fiscal year (two years ago, July 1, 2012) and just over 100 were filed during FY2012-2013; since only 50-some cases closed that means the county had nearly 200 cases pending as of June 30, 2013.
• Mayor
• a collection of reports from a number of boards and projects under the mayor's office

There are a total of 19 department sections in the county annual report. I will update with highlights from a few more at a time.

Fiscal Year 2012 - 2013 Annual Report by Department

Annual Report Cover

Message from the Mayor
Table of Contents
Section I: Office of the County Attorney
Section II: Civil Defense Agency
Section III: Department of Personnel Services
Section IV: Office of Economic Development
Section V: Agency on Elderly Affairs
Section VI: Department of Finance
Section VII: Kauai Fire Department
Section VIII: Kauai County Housing Agency
Section IX: Department of Liquor Control
Section X: Office of the Mayor
Section XI: Department of Parks & Recreation
Section XII: Planning Department
Section XIII: Kauai Police Department
Section XIV: Office of the Prosecuting Attorney
Section XV: Department of Public Works
Section XVI: Transportation Agency
Section XVII: Department of Water
Section XVIII: Office of the County Clerk
Section XIX: Office of the County Auditor