6 things I'd love to see Dave Boliek audit
Here are the places a real audit could answer what the glossy reports don’t.
Every time I get a notification in my inbox that the Office of the State Auditor has released a new report, I feel a little tingle inside. OK, maybe that’s a bit overdramatic, but under new State Auditor Dave Boliek, the office has already made a ton of news.
And there’s certainly plenty in North Carolina worth an audit. It didn’t take me long to come up with this list of six areas I’d love to see Boliek tackle.
When I talk about an “audit,” I don’t mean punishment or a political hit job. A good audit asks three simple questions:
Is this program operating the way the law says it should?
Is it actually achieving valid goals?
Are taxpayers’ dollars being protected, not wasted or abused?
What follows is my short list of where I’d like to see that kind of work done next. It’s a mix: some hot, topical issues, and some quieter areas where state spending has quietly exploded in recent years.
These are the places where a serious, public audit could answer questions that existing reports and consulta…