Washington state Auditor Brian Sonntag is unhappy about Gov. Chris Gregoire’s proposal to audit school districts every three years instead of annually — unless the district had a recent audit that was poor– in order to save districts time and resources.
In a Jan. 23 letter, Sonntag calls the proposal “bad public policy.”
“It compromises our Office’s independence and flies in the face of citizen and policymaker demands for accountability over ever-dwindling resources,” he writes of the legislation.
Click here to read the rest of the letter.
Efforts to cut the independence of of the Auditor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office need to be scotched, right now! Washington’s Executive Branch is divided into nine offices for a reason. The independence of each office helps to protect unwarranted against political control by any single executive; eg. governor.