Audit committee approves annual audit plan, adds harassment review and parks hiring audit

The Metro Audit Committee on a voice vote approved the internal audit office’s annual audit plan, adding several audits and removing one after a prolonged discussion about priorities and hours.

The committee moved to add a Metro government harassment, discrimination and retaliation investigation practices audit and explicitly expand that scope to include Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS). It also added a Metro Parks recruiting and hiring practices audit and a review of Metro Nashville Police Department (MMPD) confiscated funds and evidence room operations, and removed a previously proposed MMPD traffic-enforcement audit. The committee also clarified that a proposed historic audit should explicitly include the Historic Zoning Commission as well as the Historical Commission.

The annual plan covers the audit office’s year that runs roughly…