审计称金县无家者管理局1670万美元去向不明县议会周四质询
位于华盛顿州金县的西雅图（Seattle），据本地媒体10月22日报道，一项独立审计发现，金县地区无家者管理局（KCRHA）有1,670万美元公共资金无法说明去向、很可能无法追回，机构整体赤字达4,470万美元。审计将问题归因于持续的财务管理不善，但未发现欺诈证据。该局负责人定于周四到金县议会行政财务委员会接受质询，议员要求解释这笔钱到底花在了什么地方、为何机构自己也说不清。委员会主席罗德·登博夫斯基（Rod Dembowski）批评这是管理与监督双重失职，并指出该局运作期间无庇护无家者人数反而翻倍。已有地方官员呼吁解散该局；但县长吉尔迈·扎希莱（Girmay Zahilay）警告，解散可能危及联邦资金——约6,000万美元的“持续照护”联邦拨款经该区域系统发放，支撑约4,000人的住房。县与西雅图市是否出手财政援助、该局存废如何，将取决于后续质询与两级政府的决定。
Audit: $16.7M at King County Homelessness Authority Unaccounted For; Council to Question Agency Thursday
SEATTLE, Washington — In Seattle, King County, Washington, an independent audit has found that $16.7 million in public funds at the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) cannot be accounted for and is likely unrecoverable, with the agency running an overall deficit of $44.7 million, local media reported on October 22. The audit attributed the problems to persistent financial mismanagement but found no evidence of fraud. The agency's head is due before the county council's administration and finance committee on Thursday, where members will demand an explanation of what the money was spent on and why the agency itself cannot say. Committee chair Rod Dembowski criticized the findings as a failure of both management and oversight, noting that the number of unsheltered homeless people has doubled during the authority's operation. Some local officials have called for dissolving the agency, but County Executive Girmay Zahilay warned that dissolution could jeopardize federal funding — about $60 million in federal Continuum of Care grants flows through the regional system, supporting housing for about 4,000 people. Whether the county and the City of Seattle step in with financial aid, and whether the authority survives, will depend on the questioning to come and decisions by both governments.
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图片来源：金县法院大楼。图片：Joe Mabel，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / King County Courthouse, Seattle. Photo: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
