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Committee flags grants as a high-risk audit target; director to coordinate timing with new grants manager
Summary
Committee members identified grants as an inherently risky area and urged the internal-audit director to schedule testing that gives the new grants manager time to organize documentation; the director said grants and contracts audits remain under consideration but are resource-intensive.
Commissioners told the audit director that grants, because they involve other people's money and multiple compliance requirements, are a natural high-risk target for the audit plan. "Grants are always a risk," the director said, and noted she had planned grants or contracts audits for future years but that capacity and the timing of a new grants manager's arrival argue for a measured approach.
Committee members recommended a stepped approach: first test whether grants documentation exists and is housed properly countywide, then sample specific grants. The director said she would avoid pulling the new grants manager into an audit on her first day and would coordinate timing so the manager has a reasonable period to assemble records. The committee agreed to revisit the grants topic in a future meeting as part of next year's risk assessment and audit-plan prioritization.
