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State auditor warns of steep local audit rate hikes unless Senate funds recommended budget
Summary
Auditor of State Keith Faber told the Senate Finance Committee that failure to fund his office at requested levels would require large increases in local audit rates and reduce capacity for fraud, provider and performance audits; the House substitute includes the funding he sought.
Auditor of State Keith Faber told the Senate Finance Committee that the auditor's office requires full funding of its executive budget submission to preserve affordable audit rates for local governments and schools and to sustain fraud and performance work statewide.
Faber said his office has kept local audit rates at $41 per hour since February 2011, subsidized by state appropriations, and proposed modest increases to $42 in FY26 and $43 in FY27. He warned that the governor’s recommended funding levels would require much larger increases — to about $50 per hour in the first year and $56 in the second year — to maintain operations. Faber said the House substitute included the funding his office requested and thanked House leadership for supporting those levels.
Why it matters: The auditor’s office audits roughly 6,000 local…
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