Audit chairman asks Houston County commission to accept comptroller's findings

Houston County audit chairman Glenn Bagot told the county commission during a recessed meeting that the county comptroller's office identified three findings in the county mayor's office and that the audit committee accepted the office's explanations and the proposed resolutions.

"We met tonight to discuss the audit results from the comptroller's office. They met three findings in the county mayor's office. We accepted the explanations and the resolutions going forward," Bagot said, and referred that recommendation to the full commission for action.

According to the meeting record, a motion to accept the audit committee's recommendation was offered and seconded. The transcript records the motion and a call for the vote; the specific roll-call tally for that motion is not provided in the transcript, though the chair later stated the motion passed. The commission was operating under a recess meeting with a quorum present when the referral occurred.

The action means the audit committee's recommended responses and resolutions addressing the comptroller's findings will be considered adopted by the county commission unless further procedural steps are specified at a subsequent meeting. The transcript does not record additional detail about the content of the three findings or the text of the resolutions.

The commission moved on to consider a separate sheriff's budget transfer and then adjourned.