Flaws cost city $366,000, audit finds

By Gordon Y.K. Pang

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 16, 2012

~~<p>The city has lost about $366,000 in camping permit fee revenues because it installed an online camping system last March that is not capable of collecting fees, according to an audit of the Department of Parks and Recreation's camping operations.</p>
<p>City Auditor Edwin Young also concluded that because the camping permit fees, approved by the City Council last year and enacted as an ordinance on June 21, 2011, are to be deposited into the general fund rather than an account dedicated to repairs, the Parks Department has yet to create a plan to make improvements to the camping program.</p>
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The city has lost about $366,000 in camping permit fee revenues because it installed an online camping system last March that is not capable of collecting fees, according to an audit of the Department of Parks and Recreation's camping operations.

City Auditor Edwin Young also concluded that because the camping permit fees, approved by the City Council last year and enacted as an ordinance on June 21, 2011, are to be deposited into the general fund rather than an account dedicated to repairs, the Parks Department has yet to create a plan to make improvements to the camping program. Login for more...