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Commissioners approve audit contract, CDBG admin amendment, DIT MOU, FEMA agent designation and budget changes
Summary
The board approved a one‑year audit engagement with Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC for $39,450; approved a $13,600 contract amendment to The Wooten Company for extended CDBG closeout work tied to Weitron; authorized an MOU with NC Department of Information Technology for network monitoring; designated Cindy Ange and Jody Griffin as FEMA reimbursement agents; and adopted several budget amendments.
At its April 8 meeting Martin County commissioners approved a set of administrative and financial items to support ongoing county operations during the pandemic and to close out longstanding grants.
Audit contract: The board approved a one‑year audit engagement with Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC for auditing county accounts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020. County staff said the $39,450 contract reflects an increase of $600 from the prior year and attributed the rise to a smaller auditor market and ongoing Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) changes.
CDBG administration (Weitron): The Wooten Company asked for an additional $13,600 to continue monitoring job creation and complete closeout work for the Weitron CDBG project after delays slowed job commitments (20 of 31 committed full‑time jobs had been created to date). The board approved the amendment and associated budget transfers to fund the additional administration.
DIT MOU and cybersecurity: Following a positive cybersecurity audit by the North Carolina National Guard conducted in November 2019, county IT staff recommended entry into a Memorandum of Understanding with the NC Department of Information Technology (DIT) to enable shared network monitoring, information exchange, and a 'whole‑of‑state' approach to cyber risk reduction. The board approved the MOU unanimously.
FEMA agent designation: To prepare for potential reimbursement requests related to the coronavirus response, the board designated Finance Director Cindy Ange as the primary applicant agent for the NC Division of Emergency Management and Emergency Management Director Jody Griffin as the secondary agent; the resolution was approved as part of consent items.
Budget amendments: The board adopted several budget amendments: #19 to appropriate $320,000 in airport fund revenues and expenditures for the ALP project; #20 to re‑appropriate $63,000 for transit equipment purchased under a previous NCDOT grant; and #21/#22 to transfer $13,600 from the general fund to cover the TWC grant administration amendment. All budget items were approved unanimously.
Next steps: Staff will forward the audit contract to the Local Government Commission as required, submit reimbursement requests as warranted, and manage CDBG closeout monitoring and cybersecurity coordination with DIT.
