Tag search result for: state auditor

Funeral board violated meetings laws

bniolet — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:45:37 -0500

The N.C. Board of Funeral Service didn't keep minutes of its closed sessions, as required by state law.

The State Auditor's office, acting on a tip, reviewed five years of board minutes and found that typed minutes were not kept for closed sessions, in violation of the state's open meetings law. The board regulates the funeral business.

Merritt: Ethics board has no teeth

bniolet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:57:52 -0400

Former state Auditor Les Merritt said the N.C. State Ethics Commission has failed to keep government clean.

Auditors can't have gifts

bniolet — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:56:28 -0400

The State Auditor's Office has had a long-standing ban on gifts to auditors.

The policy extends to all employees of the office and precludes all but a few narrow exceptions for nominal, token items that could arise out of a speech or service on a board. Gov. Beverly Perdue's executive order bans gifts to all state employees in her administration

Auditor disputes employees claims

bniolet — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:22:03 -0400

The state auditor's office says an employee asked for a voluntary layoff, changed his mind and then filed suit because he fears a layoff.

Attorneys representing the auditor filed a motion Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Darryl Black, an assistant state auditor who says his bosses have targeted him because his is a Republican.

Worker says he was targeted for politics

bniolet — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:47:03 -0400

An assistant auditor has sued the state, claiming that his bosses are going after him because he is a Republican.

Darryl Black sued the Office of the State Auditor, saying that after Democratic Auditor Beth Wood was elected, supervisors in her office began pressuring him to take a voluntary layoff because he is a Republican.

Audit: Pay for M. Easley 'excessive'

janestancill — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:53:23 -0400

State Auditor Beth Wood today released a January audit that said the salary N.C. State University paid to then-First Lady Mary Easley was excessive and should have been reduced by nearly $90,000.

State agencies fail transparency test

bkrueger — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:37:35 -0400

Most state agencies fall far short in providing taxpayers with access to information about their work, according to a new survey of transparency in government.

The John Locke Foundation this week unveiled nctranparency.com, an ongoing look at how state and local agencies in terms of making information available to the public.

Wood will keep investigations head

bniolet — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:09:17 -0500

Auditor-elect Beth Wood said she plans to keep on board Frank Perry, a former FBI man, who was investigations chief for departing auditor Les Merritt.

What does the state auditor do?

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:59:02 -0500

Wood preps for auditor's job

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:57:57 -0500

Beth Wood says she's ready to be state auditor.

A little more than a month after she won her first race for public office, the former longtime employee in the auditor's office says she has decided who will stay and who will go.

"I'm not sure there's ever been a team this talented, starting with the state auditor," she said.