Questions for the auditor

Since receiving the audit on March 5, and accepting it on April 2, the Saratoga Town Council has expressed a desire to speak with Dennis Tschacher of ACM, the company that performed the audit for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017/2018. As was reported previously (see “On the plus side” on page 3 of the May 8 Saratoga Sun), Tschacher was expected to be in attendance during the April 29 budget workshop, but was unable to attend due to scheduling conflicts.

Despite the audit reporting several significant deficiencies in internal control, Tschacher assured the council that the audit was clean. He infor...