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(3) Follow-up audits and monitoring of responses to audit recommendations by audited entities. [(e)](ff For purposes of this section, "county agency" or "executive agency" includes any office, department, board, commission, agency, semi- autonomous agency, or other governmental unit of the county in the executive or legislative branch that is supported, in whole or in part, by county funds. [(f)]W For purposes of [eaFrying a"` an " "`,] performing the duties of the legislative auditor's office, the legislative auditor shall have: (1) Full, free, and unrestricted access to any county officer or employee. (2) Full, free, and unrestricted access to and authority to examine and inspect any record of any county agency, executive agency, or program except for any record protected from disclosure by law, rule or privilege. (3) Full, free, and unrestricted access to and authority to examine and inspect any property, facility, or equipment of any county agency, executive agency, or program pertinent to the audit or to a contract. (4) Full, free, and unrestricted access to and authority to administer oaths and subpoena witnesses and compel the production of records pertinent thereto. If any person subpoenaed as a witness or compelled to produce records shall fail or refuse to respond thereto, the proper court, upon request of the auditor, shall have the power to compel obedience to any process of the auditor and to punish, as [a] contempt of the court, any refusal to comply therewith without good cause. [TL audiier may retain speeial eounsel, in the :::....ne author-ii�ed bythe eetineil, to - a nt the auditor -in implementing these T] (5) The authority to retain independent legal counsel to represent the legislative auditor's office. [(g)] }moi The legislative auditor shall conduct or cause to be conducted all audits in accordance with government auditing standards, and shall set forth final audit findings and recommendations in written reports, copies of which shall be transmitted to the county council and the mayor and filed with the county clerk as public records." SECTION 3. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawaii, the reviser need not include the brackets, bracketed material, or underscoring. I