Internal audit flags outdated PBA contracts, parking and space-allocation gaps and $25.9M maintenance backlog

Mar 10, 2025

Knox County internal audit presented a City-County Building (PBA) audit identifying: decades-old contracts (1975/1977/1993), inconsistent space-allocation records, parking-access control gaps, and a 2018 facility master plan estimate of about $25.9 million in deferred modernization costs.

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Zach Fullerton, presenting for internal audit, told the Knox County Audit Committee on March 10 that the Public Building Authority (PBA) contract documents governing the City-County Building have not been substantively updated since 1993 and that operational changes make a new operating agreement advisable.

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