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Ethics Commission hears audit backlog update, seeks outside help while staff ramps up in-house work
Summary
Audit manager Linda Fong described work to reduce a backlog of mandatory campaign and lobbying audits, progress on a lobbying-audit program, and plans to contract external audit services while strengthening in-house processes; commissioners raised sample-size and resource questions. The commission also approved its FY24–25 budget submission to the mayor.
The Ethics Commission heard an update Feb. 10 from audit and compliance review manager Linda Fong on the commission’s audit backlog and the audit division’s capacity and plans.
Fong said the audit division is responsible for campaign finance audits, annual lobbyist audits and a planned Form 700 (statements of economic interest) post-filing compliance review. The unit returned to full capacity in late 2021 and has since developed standardized procedures and a lobbying-audit program; it completed six lobbying audits covering activity in the most recent review period. The backlog includes mandatory audits from 2019 and 2020 and…
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