After looking last week at the top 20 municipal budgets in the U.S., we decided to present the equivalent numbers for the other major category of local government as well: the county.
And it turns out, California is, by far, home to the most counties appearing on the list. The state’s spread-out, urban nature means that it has players at the top and bottom of the list: Los Angeles County is second with a budget of $30 billion, and Sacramento County is tied for last place at $4 billion.
Of course, there are four entries on the list that overlap the city budgets list — San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York City are all consolidated city-counties, so they appear on both. If one were to be a purist and exclude those from the list, the next four would be Contra Costa County, Calif.; Orange County, Fla.; Prince George’s County, Md.; and Suffolk County, N.Y.
Here are the chief information officers (or their equivalents) from all 20 counties:
- New York City: Anne Roest
- Los Angeles County: Peter Loo
- District of Columbia: Archana Vemulapalli
- San Francisco: Ken Bukowski
- Philadelphia: Charles Brennan
- Fairfax County, Va.: Wanda Gibson
- Miami-Dade County: Angel Petisco
- Clark County, Nev.: Michael Lane
- Santa Clara County, Calif.: Ann Dunkin
- Orange County, Calif.: Charles Eckstrom
- Montgomery County, Md.: Sonny Segal
- King County, Wash.: Bill Kehoe
- Riverside County, Calif.: Steve Reneker
- San Bernardino County, Calif.: Jennifer Hilber
- San Diego County: Mikel Haas
- Cook County, Ill.: Simona Rollinson
- Hillsborough County, Fla.: Ramin Kouzehkanani
- Palm Beach County, Fla.: Steven Bordelon
- Broward County, Fla.: John Bruno
- Sacramento County, Calif.: Rami Zakaria