Augusta, Georgia city departments appear likely to get an internal forensic audit after leaders found out in the past month that the city owes the IRS at least $2 million.
In an Augusta Commission committee meeting this week, commission member Catherine Smith McKnight pressed forward with a motion for next week to forensically audit multiple departments in Augusta. “It just seems like the plot keeps getting thicker. We can start there, the mayor’s department, and randomly choose all the departments to look into as to where the money is going,” she said.
Agusta mayor, Garnett Johnson supports the plan. “I think that’s a great idea. Especially at the department level. I’ve always said that we owe transparency to the constituents, and to the taxpayers. There are other neighboring agencies that do a similar process to where they’re not only auditing the financials but also look at their internal processes and how they work,” said Johnson.