Splash!
DOBOR Audit Dead–For Now
H.B. 2422 H.D. 1 is dead. This Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation (DOBOR) audit bill would have required “the auditor to conduct a performance and management audit of DLNR’s Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation.” An audit would highlight DOBOR’s elimination of “fishing” from its primary purpose and its efforts to privatize harbors. DLNR Chairperson Suzanne Case doesn’t believe a DOBOR audit is necessary. In testimony against the audit, she cited 12 previous audits from 1976 to 2019. “In addition to the audits listed above,” Suzanne stated, “a financial audit of DOBOR is conducted every year.”
DOBOR Administrator Ed Underwood, like Suzanne, claimed on a BLNR hearing transcript that DOBOR had a yearly audit. “Splash!” has asked to see the audits but has received nothing to date.
Alana B. Rask from O‘ahu, a live-aboard resident of the Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor, stated in her legislative testimony that an audit was needed because previous audits were unheeded: “The last audit of DOBOR, which was completed in 2001, stated that inadequate management of state boating facilities has been a recurring problem. Our prior audits in 1993 and 1998 reported on these deficiencies. In our present audit, we found that little had changed in the poor conditions
