Re: “‘Damning audit’ begs the question: Who is protecting taxpayer interests in King County?” (Aug. 29, Opinion):
I retired in 2018 after 14 years of managing public grant funds at a nonprofit group in Snohomish County. After studying concerning the inexcusable lack of oversight and accountability by King County Division of Neighborhood and Human Providers in managing funds distributed to group teams, I’ve a renewed appreciation for the Snohomish County Human Providers Division, and significantly the employees I labored with from the Workplace of Neighborhood and Homeless Providers.
Their monitoring of our use of public funds was executed intently, professionally, at common and predictable intervals, and in a spirit of partnership. They facilitated our accountable use of public funds in a context of guidelines and laws that might be sophisticated, cumbersome and typically downright annoying, and had been there for a motive — the underside line of accountability to taxpayers and the group.
King County should do higher.
Deborah Hyman, Seattle
