The City wants it to happen, the oversight board says it is happy for it to happen, and the office who is being asked to make it happen says it will assist any way it can. So what is happening, exactly?
The Mayor of Pittsburgh is requesting the Auditor General’s office to audit the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (oversight board) and possibly move to disband it.
By the language of the statute that created it, the oversight board is required to have its “…books, accounts and records audited annually in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards by an independent auditor who shall be a certified public accountant” so that does not disqualify the AG’s office but it does not specifically mention the office either. Perhaps if someone is going to swing by Pittsburgh they could drop by the SEA and offer their two cents on who should be looking at their finances as well.
The statute also mentions that the chairs of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees “…shall have the right at any time to examine the books, accounts, and records of the authority”. It should be noted that a search of the AG’s site and that of a similar oversight board in Philadelphia seems to indicate that the AG has never had a role in auditing that agency.
