Marin County Grand Jury
• 2024-2025
2015-16 Web Transparency Report Card: Bringing Marin County's Local Governments to Light.
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Findings and Recommendations 3 findings
F1
A complete list of special districts, JPAs and CSAs in Marin County is not available. Inconsistent partial lists are published by Marin LAFCO, the County Clerk, the County Finance Office, and the California State Controller; therefore, the public is unable to find critical information from one source.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
The Marin County Board of Supervisors should create and publish a comprehensive online "digital directory" of all the County of Marin's dependent and independent special districts, CSAs and JPAs, with links to their websites, no later than December 31, 2019.
F2
Without a full list, it is difficult to determine how many special districts exist and how much taxpayer money is expended by them.
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R2
The Board of Supervisors, the County Director of Finance, and the County Clerk should determine how the list will be compiled, who will be responsible for maintaining it, what formats it will have, and how it will be published.
F3
Information about total board compensation, including salaries, benefits, and allowances, and how it is calculated is not consistently reported and made easily available for comparison among all special districts.
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R3
The list should contain the data items delineated above in the Recommended Elements for the Special District List section of this report.