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Casita asks Klamath County to commission immediate independent audit; commissioners say they will consider request
Summary
Casita representatives asked the board to commission an independent audit for fiscal year 2024–25 and to correct alleged misinformation; the board said it would consider the request and respond.
Representatives of Casita, a local nonprofit that supports businesses and members in Klamath County, asked the Board of Commissioners to commission an independent financial audit for fiscal year 2024–25 and to publicly correct what the organization described as misinformation about its funding.
“The county charter clearly outlines the responsibility of the board of commissioners to establish policy,” Randy Cox, CEO and board chair of Casita, said as he read a prepared statement into the record. Cox said Casita’s concerns “chiefly lie in the decision to practice selective governance” and warned that unclear or poorly written grant conditions could “remove the ability to enter into nondisclosure agreements or NDAs, undermining active negotiations and eroding trust with private sector partners.”
Casita asked the county to select an independent licensed CPA audit firm and issue a letter of engagement covering the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2025, with the audit to begin no later than Aug. 15, 2025. The organization requested that costs for the audit be covered by general fund dollars. Casita cited ongoing “dissemination of misinformation, spurious remarks, and innuendo” in local and social media and asked the board to move promptly rather than waiting until the end of the next fiscal year.
Commissioners did not take immediate action at the meeting. The chair responded that the board would consider the request once Commissioner Minty returned and would get back to Casita. No timeline for a formal decision, selection process, or a vote to fund the audit from general fund dollars was recorded in the public minutes.
Casita said it has more than 100 members and that its board meets quarterly and reviews financials. The organization also requested a copy of its statement be provided to Commissioner Minty and reiterated that some circulated claims about past funding—an asserted $4.8 million over nine years—were “patently false,” and that the true figure is “less than half” of that, though Casita did not provide a specific corrected total at the meeting.
