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Charter panel moves internal-audit language, debates auditor subpoena and deputy authority
Summary
The Lansing Charter Commission voted to relocate internal- and external-audit provisions in the draft city charter and to add the internal auditor to a mayor-response requirement, but commissioners debated the auditor's subpoena and personnel-access powers and rejected an amendment to reduce a required deputy post to permissive language.
The Lansing Charter Commission voted June 3 to move the internal- and external-audit provisions from the draft charter's legislative article into the finance article and approved adding the internal auditor as an intended recipient of the mayor's written response to audit reports.
The change was approved after commission counsel Kristen presented a memo recommending the relocation. "We don't think that it makes sense to keep it there given the sort of independent nature," Kristen said, describing the recommendation to place audit language in Article VII on finance rather than Article III, the legislative section.
Commissioners then debated how much power to give the internal auditor. Commissioner Boyd raised concerns about language that appeared to allow the internal…
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