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qualified as an administrator, an engineer or may have
numerous other qualifications before he is equipped to
determine whether or not performance has been truly
carried out according to the enactment of the legislation
creating the project and the expenditure.
We believe that we should provide for it this
way so that it would be an office of such stature that if
the General Assembly sees fit to retain this
individual, he may be continued on by the next General
Assembly. But it is at their pleasure literally that he
serves because he is their agent and is serving under
them. It so happens that in the proposal which the
Legislative Council has now prepared for presentation to
the General Assembly they are asking that all of the post-
audit functions be transferred to the Legislative Branch,
which is encompassed within this requirement of this matte
before us now. They say likewise that the work of the
legislative auditor should be addressed not only to
agency compliance and other pertinent laws, but also to
general performance of the agency and suggested improvements
thereof. |
