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Finance committee defers vote on independent CIP monitor to refine scope, add engineering expertise
Summary
DeKalb County's Finance, Audit and Budget Committee deferred action for two weeks on a resolution to fund an independent capital improvement program (CIP) monitor. Committee members requested clearer language distinguishing a monitor from an auditor and asked that engineering expertise be added to the project's scope of services.
The DeKalb County Finance, Audit and Budget Committee on an underspecified May meeting date voted to defer action for two weeks on a resolution (item 0240) that would fund an independent monitor to review the county's capital improvement program and related contracts.
The resolution, introduced by Commissioner Maria Davis Johnson as a proposal to establish and fund an independent CIP monitor, was revised during committee discussion to swap the original term "auditor" for "monitor." Committee members and the county's Office of Independent Internal Audit warned that the two roles carry distinct authorities, legal constraints and standards.
At the meeting, Director Campbell of the Office of Independent Internal Audit said, "a monitor is more non audit…
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