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Maryland is you have the State Auditor appointed, but
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all of his stuff are merit system prople, who are career
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people and learn as they go about their duties a tremen-
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dous amount about the governmental structure and about
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how it works and the intricacies of it and what is the pri-
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mary concern of each agency, which 1 think would be lack-
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ing if you did this on a contract basis.
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Now, in a second factor dealing v?ith a contract
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basis, in local subdivisions, which actually put out a
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bid, in other words, select the low bidder to do an audit
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job, they have a pretty -- and I will go off the record
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here --
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(Discussion off the record.)
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MR. NOSSEL: In the present type of audit, you
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can go in and find nothing major wrong in any agency.
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In other words, they are performing in accordance with the
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stated function of the office, and nobody has their hands
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in the till, but there are still many minor points,
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relatively minor, that deserve some criticism, that
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this doesn't have the kind of controls on it that it
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should have, or this may be on a borderline as being
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withinthe meaning of a certain Section of the Code.
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