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California public school and community college district voters approved $20 billion of construction loans in 2022, with more passing in 2023, using the Proposition 39 financing capability. The ...

In one respect, the 2005 legislative session ended as it began: with the passage of performance audits. Long a priority of House Speaker Frank Chopp (who ushered performance-audit legislation through ...

In a reform nearly half a century in the making, Washington state voters in November restored the state auditor’s authority to conduct independent and comprehensive performance audits of state and ...

The survey, of 300 C-suite executives and 100 audit committee members, found that nearly three-quarters of the top executives and 91 percent of the audit committee members polled said audits of ...

Thanks to the veto pen of Gov. Chris Gregoire (D), Washington state’s performance audit program remains intact and adequately funded. The move gives the state auditor a green light for conducting ...

Small business owners sometimes rely on performance audits to ascertain the effectiveness of their companies. To identify unprofitable practices, the performance audit might analyze the company as a ...

Governments at all levels are looking to meet the needs of citizens while striving to be efficient and cost effective. There are many tools available to managers, directors and policymakers alike. One ...

OLYMPIA — You might have seen it on TV. The New York Police Department started the idea of having police track clusters of crime by geographic area and then deploy their officers to solve that ...

EVERETT — Tim Eyman’s former right-hand woman is switching gears with a different kind of initiative. Rather than trying to cut taxes in response to taxpayers’ skepticism, Suzanne Karr, an Everett ...