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Council members press MARTA on discrepant audit findings as KPMG and Malden & Jenkins reports diverge
Summary
Council members pressed MARTA leadership about conflicting assessments over cost allocation and fund reconciliations: an earlier Malden & Jenkins report cited roughly $70 million, while KPMG's review found about $865,000 in questioned balances; MARTA's board has convened an ad hoc committee to reconcile the methodologies.
Multiple council members pressed MARTA leadership about divergent findings from two outside reviews of cost allocation and historical reimbursements, with sharp interest in how the agency will resolve differing methodologies and amounts.
MARTA presented a timeline showing that Malden & Jenkins had prepared an earlier operational/audit-style report that identified a large discrepancy in prior-year allocations; KPMG later performed a separate operational assessment that concluded with a materially smaller figure. "KPMG finished in February of '25. On March…
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