Remarks by Dan Tripp
6 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 42:50
“I was just confused. I was talking to my colleague, Councillor Collins here. So this is, in addition, this is his forensic audit suggestion. Yes. And that's in addition to the forensic audit that you got passed a year or so ago?”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 44:35
“So two questions follow up to that. One, the General Assembly requires us to have an independent audit every year. Does that independent audit not answer these questions?”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 49:40
“Can I ask one follow-up? I mean, do you have a sense, have you talked to anybody that does these financial audits? And, you know, how long does a year take? And is doing six years of it 6X that time? I mean, you kind of keep hinting around the fact that you're okay with us narrowing the scope of it. Do you have any concept of what time it would take for one year versus six years?”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 50:53
“And that was average of the three. And what are the two fiscal years that you're concerned about? Anything within the past six years. Okay.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:01:24
“Yeah, I have absolutely zero problem with having an audit. I don't have a problem having a 20-year audit. But I think perfection can be the enemy of the good here. If one of the stated purposes of this is to give the new administrator a baseline, we can do that in a two-year budget cycle. Now, what we do one time, we can do again. If we study two years and we see there's malfeasance or you know, stupidity in budgeting, we can go back six years. We can go back ten years. I just, I mean, if we're going to give the new administrator a baseline, let's grab something, run with it, do a good job,…”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:02:27
“So that was more direction for the committee when you send an ordinance back. Okay, perfect.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026