Backwards reels the mind. You just have to read this article about Park City Kathy refusing, refusing, to do her job. Says she doesn’t have the resources, so agencies will just have to pay for her office to do audits, otherwise she won’t do them. Some fair-use excerpts:
Emails obtained by The News Journal show that in the weeks leading up to last Friday’s announcement that Odyssey Charter was put on formal review, the secretary of education had sought a state audit of the school.
But the state auditor resisted.
Citing lack of staff and recent changes to state law, Delaware Auditor Kathy McGuiness told Susan Bunting, the secretary of education, that her office was limited in how it could fulfill the request, unless it was willing to pay an hourly rate to begin an investigation.
She apparently interprets the Delaware Code as saying that she doesn’t have to do a fucking thing:
McGuiness said her office has received scores of requests for investigations since she became auditor in early 2019.
“These requests, along with the numerous unfinished audits I found upon taking office, are above and beyond the audits and engagements mandated in the Delaware Code,” McGuiness wrote to Bunting.
Hold that thought for just a second. Later in the same piece, we get the following:
McGuiness would not disclose any information about the scores of other requests she has received since taking office, including how many of them have resulted in audits.
She guesses that she has received so many requests — sometimes several a day — because of the public outreach initiatives she has promoted since taking office.
“We are pleased to receive these requests,” an email from the auditor’s office said.
Oh. So you do a phony baloney PR campaign (public outreach initiatives) to solicit audit requests, and you then do nothing with them.
This woman is a disaster. She’s already in Karen Weldin Stewart territory. At least we’ve got a mission statement for her office:
“Holding Audits Hostage Since 2019”.