Kootenai County Costs Now Online

Item: Kootenai County posts expenses: Weekly online reports let public see how each dollar is spent /Alison Boggs, SR

More Info: Making good on a campaign promise three months into his first term, Kootenai County Clerk Cliff Hayes has begun placing the county’s accounts payable reports online. … Three of the weekly reports are now available and include the $62.22 commissioners spent at Garlic Jim’s for lunch, the $311 information services spent on a printer maintenance kit and the $46,000 spent on a used wheel loader for snow removal. Everything from dog food for Juvenile Probation’s drug-sniffing dog, Beau, to airfare, lodging and meals for conferences is line-itemed on the weekly reports.

Question: Is the current Kootenai County clerk more transparent than former clerk Dan English?