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Peter Hughes, who was pushed out as Orange County’s internal audit director following audits that impacted several top government officials, was appointed this week as director of the county’s much smaller performance audit department.
In a move that had come to be expected, Orange County supervisors fired Performance Audit Director Philip Cheng Tuesday. Supervisors’ Chairman Todd Spitzer said he had frustrations with Cheng’s work.
County Performance Auditor Phillip Cheng is under fire for producing milquetoast audits. But given what supervisors have done to previous auditors, can you really blame him?
Questions are being raised about whether human resources officials inside the treasurer-tax collector’s office committed fraud in how they cashed out annual leave balances.
Consultant will evaluate whether selected city functions are being performed efficiently and reliably.
In a span of two days in November, county supervisors quietly
granted managers bonuses retroactive to 2010, then publicly voted
down the 2012 managers’ contract, citing objections to such
bonuses.
But they resist calls to withdraw questionable raises for
executives.
Performance Auditor Steve Danley says many of CEO Tom Mauk’s
explanations for pay raises don’t hold water. Supervisors will
debate issue Tuesday.
Report by performance auditor details abuses/shortcomings at
county’s human resources department.
ACS State and Local Solutions may get more than $250,000 in
bonuses despite widespread problems with county IT programs.