The Auditor-Controller’s Office mission is to promote accountability, efficiency, and compliance to ensure public trust by safeguarding the County’s financial integrity, advocating and implementing best practices, and compliance with mandates and fiduciary responsibilities.

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION OVERVIEW

Accounts Payable:

• Perform audits of county-wide purchasing/contracts/reimbursements to ensure accurate and authorized payment to vendors. Prepare and remit quarterly sales tax and Form 1099 tax reporting. Perform P-Card audits and payment processing.

Payroll:

• Perform audits of personnel action forms and employee compensation to ensure compliance with county personnel policies, MOU’s, State and Federal regulations for fraud prevention. Accurately process payroll for all permanent and temporary County employees and special programs. Prepare and submit all annual and quarterly payroll reports and taxes to State and Federal agencies.

Property Taxes:

• Perform the Auditor’s equalized property tax roll to include special taxes and assessments on behalf of the County, cities, schools and special districts. Process roll corrections for property assessments, refunds and audit oversight of property tax collection. Performs AB8 property tax apportionment to all local government agencies, special districts, and school districts.

Financial Reporting:

• Prepares and submits County’s Single Audit and annual comprehensive financial report (ACFR), annual adopted budget, annual financial transactions report, annual government compensation report, and various other reports to the California State Controller’s Office and federal agencies.

Transit Occupancy Tax Administration:

• The County Auditor-Controller's Office is responsible for collection and administration of the County’s Transit Occupancy Tax. In order to ensure compliance with the County’s short-term rental ordinance this Office has initiated agreements with the on-line rental platforms of AirBnB, Hipcamp, and HomeAway (VRBO).

• #1 – operational development and excellence: Recipient of the Government Finance Officer’s Association (GFOA) Certificate of Achievement Award for Excellence in Financial Reporting.
• #3 – technology: improve ERP capabilities and increase ACH payment issuances for vendors and employees.
• #4 – community engagement: work collaboratively with Admin to promote fiscal transparency.

• Issued first Checks & Balances Newsletter to keep departments informed about governmental accounting concepts and policies, as well as to disseminate information about deadlines and deliverables for the external audit.
• Created a SharePoint as a mechanism in which to share documents, forms, policies, laws and regulations with County departments, specifically for areas relevant to the functions of the Auditor-Controller’s Office.
• In April 2025, the Auditor-Controller’s Office conducted a countywide fiscal training to provide departmental fiscal staff training in ERP functionality as well as governmental accounting principles.
• Completed FY2023/2024 ACFR by December 31, 2024 & applied for the GFOA Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting (COA) Program.
• Achieved the GFOA Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting Program for FY 2022/2023, achieving the award for the 3^rd consecutive year.
• Received Award for Counties Financial Transaction Report from the California State Controller for over a dozen consecutive years.

• Insufficient departmental fiscal staffing and turnover is placing a significant burden on the limited staffing of the Auditor-Controller’s Office. This deficiency has resulted in a material weakness finding by the County’s external auditor.
• Insufficient staffing to provide accounting training for all county fiscal staff on a more regular basis.

• Continue to work with Administration to assist in filling vacant department fiscal positions to work towards zero audit findings in future fiscal years.
• Reduce the printing of checks and increase ACH payments to vendors and employees to increase efficiency, decrease costs and reduce the risk of fraud.
• Implement an internal audit program.
• Develop training material for countywide fiscal staff.