The Cannon County Audit Committee led by Glenn Steakley prepared a report for the Cannon County Commissioners to look over in their monthly meeting Tuesday night. After the committee was established in October of 2011, the audit committee met a total of 9 times, 8 of those were after the release of the 2011 audit by the State Comptroller’s office. To assist the Committee and future audit committees, a formal request was made to CTAS that audit committee training should be developed either by the Advisory service or the State Comptroller’s Office. The purpose of that training would be to help committees meet their obligations without having to spend considerable amounts of time researching laws. The 2011 audit revealed that Cannon County had been charged with at total of 25 finding incidents of which 10 were considered recurring and affected 9 different county department heads. The findings were carefully reviewed by the committee with the information supplied by the auditor on each finding, countermeasures were developed. The Committee began their meetings with each of the department heads which had findings in that audit. Three departments County Clerk and Master, County Executive and Sheriff’s Department supplied supporting documentation that they had already begun addressing at least some of their findings before the audit committee met with them. The entire committee wishes to thank all the departments that helped worked together with the committee to resolve most of the audit findings. The full results of combined efforts will not be known until the Comptroller’s office releases the 2012 Annual Financial Report.
