South Fulton officials discuss p‑card compliance after outside audit, mayor's account still frozen

City Manager Sharon D. Subadan told Mayor and City Council on Oct. 14 that the city has been implementing recommendations from an outside audit of the purchasing‑card program and that compliance has improved but is not yet at the target level.

The city manager said, "Our goal is for 95% compliance. And, at this point, strictly speaking, we're at about 82%." She added that if purely administrative items are excluded — for example approved travel forms not uploaded to match transactions — compliance is closer to 94%.

The update came at the council's 4 p.m. work session while members pressed for detail on whether further, more costly forensic audits were needed. Subadan said forensic audits can be expensive and are typically targeted rather than done system‑wide: "forensic audits are expensive. Typically, just from my own…