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State Auditor briefs House Commerce & Economic Development Committee on performance audits, staffing and oversight limits
Summary
The State Auditor described the office’s performance audit role, staffing constraints, peer-review standards and focus areas — including health care costs and tax-increment financing audits — during the committee’s Jan. 30 meeting.
The Vermont House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development received a briefing on Jan. 30 from State Auditor Doug on the office’s role, resources and audit priorities, including health-care cost oversight, tax-increment financing (TIF) work and municipal scope limits.
State Auditor Doug said the auditor’s office is a constitutional office that emphasizes performance auditing under the Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS). “The point is we know where the money is, we can track it, we know about compliance, but the remaining question is, are the administrators ... administering the programs that you have created and funded in the way that you intended?” he said.
Doug told the committee the…
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