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Vermont state auditor outlines office role, flags burdens of TIF oversight
Summary
State Auditor Doug Hoffer told the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee on Jan. 16 that his 16-person office focuses on performance audits, oversees financial and federal single audits, and is shouldering a substantial, ongoing workload auditing tax increment financing districts.
State Auditor Doug Hoffer told the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee on Jan. 16 that his 16-person office focuses its limited resources on performance audits while overseeing the state’s financial and federal single audits, and that mandated oversight of tax increment financing districts consumes a large share of staff time.
Hoffer said the Auditor’s Office has 16 positions with several vacancies and about 11 professional auditors, and an annual budget of “under $4,000,000.” He described performance auditing as the office’s primary public-facing work: “we get to look into every corner of state government and ask hard questions,” he said, adding that performance audits assess whether taxpayer dollars are used “effectively and efficiently.”
The nut of Hoffer’s remarks was a warning about the resource demands tied to the legislature’s…
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