RFP Staff
♦ In a email dated December 3, 2014 Martin and Starnes Auditor Tonya L. Marshall verified that City Finance Director would print the annual audit document for the City Council and that the only thing she needed to print and bring to the City Council meeting where the audit was to be presented was the responsibility letters. Responsibility letters are “required auditor communication with those charged with governance. In laymen’s terms it is the letter the auditor has to give to the City Council giving a summary of the things they are required to communicate, including any concerns or negative findings.
Martin and Starnes Auditor Tonya L. Marshall offers to send him a PDF or to print them for him. It’s up to him. City Finance Director Wade Furches chooses to receive the PDF and states he will drop it in the “appropriate folder” and all council would then have access to it.
We question if this actually occurred. Did the City Council actually receive the governance letter or did City Finance Director Wade Furches “forget” to “put it in their folder.”
We question this because a later governance letter from auditor Martin and Starnes to the City Council about internal controls and embezzlement was not shared with new Councilmembers Kenny Hardin and David Post. We do not know if Martin and Starnes was made aware that the latest governance letter was not shared.
