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Kootenai County auditor asks commissioners to approve $110,000 consultant to begin search for a new accounting system
Summary
The county auditor told commissioners the county's current financial software (New World) is in end-of-sale status and cannot meet new lease/accounting rules, and requested $110,000 for a consultant to lead a system search; staff said the cost can be covered from IT fund balance and would not require a property tax levy.
Kootenai County Auditor Randy asked the Board of County Commissioners on May 30 to add $110,000 to the FY26 budget to hire an outside software consultant to begin a search for a new countywide accounting system.
The auditor told commissioners the county's current accounting software, New World (a Tyler Technologies product), is in an "end of sale" phase and lacks necessary functions the county now needs. "We are losing a lot of productivity because we have to do a lot of manual, time consuming, and cumbersome processes outside of the system," the auditor said. He said the county must now track leases and certain IT arrangements under a new accounting rule and that New World "has no plans to create any type of functionality…
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