I haven’t heard much lately about this so I don’t know how hard the petition to have the city is being pushed out there. No one’s asked me to sign and I haven’t seen anyone out looking for signatures. Just the same I decided to do a little research when told I had my facts wrong about what the audit would entail. I was in deed wrong in assuming it would cover only the same ground that we already do when having an audit. They do look at other things but so far about 90% of every audit report I’ve read has been about finances and that is a duplication and an added expense to the City of Carl Junction. There are other things that they look at and I’m perfectly okay with that. In fact I have a proposal. I think it’s such a great idea that the State do an audit why don’t we ask the legislature to amend the current law. As I understand in my reading thus far there is no provision that would allow the city to ask for an audit. It is done by petition or if asked for by the Governor. What would be so wrong in giving the city the opportunity to hire the State every few years to do an audit? Right now it is assumed that if the State is doing an audit it must be because there’s something underhanded going on. Why does that have to be? The State is putting the city in a bad position in the current scheme, not to mention costing the taxpayers money when a city like Carl Junction already pays for an annual audit. If the State were to allow the city to just hire them every few years we could do that in lieu of our normal annual audit. This would assure that the city is staying current with the laws of the State of Missouri and do so without having to have suspision from its citizens and the extra cost of duplication that the State audit brings to the city currently. I’m not at all worried about the State finding anything wrong with how things have been done in Carl Junction. We have our finances audited every year already and have been doing so for at least as long as I’ve been an Alderman in Carl Junction. I also fully expect they would have suggestions as to how we can do things better. I see that in many of the reports and they give the City the chance to respond and explain whey they may disagree if needed or to adopt the findings and suggestions that come from the audit.
Positive critique and the chance to make things better is not only smart, its just plain good for everyone.
