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FRO" Phil Batchelor, County Administrator `�"" 'Ira
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DATE'. June 3 , 1986 Coiry
SUBJECT: AUDIT SERVICES
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND Alm JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Approve and authorize Chairman, Board of Supervisors to execute an agree-
ment for audit services for the 1985-86 fiscal year with the firm of Peat,
Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in the amount of $73,700 .
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The 1984-1985 agreement with the firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. was
in the amount of $49,950. The new agreement is for $73,700, an increase of
$23 ,750. Of this increase, $19,950 is due to the federal requirements for
a Single Audit.
BACKGROUND:
An outside audit of County government financial affairs is an annual
requirement and is provided for in the California State Statutes Penal Code
Section 926 and Government Code Section 25250 . A significant increase in
the scopeof the annual audit was mandated by the Federal Government in the
Single Audit Act of 1984. This act requires audits, separate reports, and
compliance testing of the County' s federal financial assistance programs.
Because of the increase in scope, a Request for Proposal was . sent to
qualified accounting firms. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. was selected
from the firms responding to the RFP by a selection board representing the
Grand Jury, the County Administrator' s Office and the County
Auditor-Controller' s Office.
CONTINUED ON ATTACFaAENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BO RD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S): ,
ACTION OF BOARD ON June , APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X _ OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT --- ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES'. NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED `Tune 3 , 19.86
Auditor-Controller PHIL BATCHELOR_ CLERK OF THE BOARDo OF
Grand Jury SUPERVISORS AND, COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR;
Peat ,Marwick, Mitchell & Co .
BY „DEPUTY
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