Audit Part Deux

Remember that audit everyone was clamoring about? The forensic one the commission finally agreed to do? Well, it’s run into a snag. It seems you don’t just say “Investigate the TEE Center parking deck” or whatever else you might want to investigate. Apparently, the companies that do the actual work, the ones that do it for a living, require a bit more direction than simple “fetch the crook.” When the city put the job out for bid, they got back questions like “What exactly do you want” and “Why are you suspicious that something’s wrong.” The irony is, of course, that the people the companies are asking — the staff — don’t think anything’s wrong at all. Some of the commissioners, on the other hand, do. So a special subcommittee was established to determine the scope and the maximum budget of the forensic audit. The subcommittee will include Commissioners Lockett and Mason, Deputy Administrator Tamika Allen, general counsel Andrew MacKenzie and Procurement Director Geri Sams. Given the fact that Lockett and Mason were consistently critical of the TEE Center and its parking deck and both were proponents of the forensic audit, it’s likely that they’ll recommend a grandiose audit far more expensive than the rest of the commission will be willing to stomach. And if the negotiations that follow are anything like the ones before, it’s very likely the plan will lose support altogether.You Might Also Like: