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MS. JARMAN: I've asked to see if one of the Legislative Auditors is here that could answer the question about how they go about deciding which audit they are going to do. MR. GOODENOW: Here's the language from the Charter Amendment. "The legislative auditor shall conduct or cause to be conducted: (1) The annual financial audit of the county, as required in article X, Financial Procedures, section 10 -13, Post audit. (2) Performance and /or financial audits of the funds, programs, services, and operations of any county agency, executive agency, or program, as set forth by the legislative auditor in an annual audit plan that shall be transmitted to the county council and the mayor and filed with the county clerk as a public record. (3) Follow -up audits and monitoring of responses to audit recommendations by audited entities." So I guess they have to follow this plan. MS. JARMAN: Excuse me, Mr. Chair. A representative from the Legislative Auditor's office is here now. Maybe he can answer the questions. Lane. CHR. HAITSUKA: Can you introduce yourself, sir. MR. SHIBATA: I am Lane Shibata, the Legislative Analyst for the Legislative Auditor. The Legislative Auditor is not here. She is attending a workshop in the mainland. I can try to answer as best as I can. CHR. HAITSUKA: Ms. Jarman, do you recall what the question was? MS. JARMAN: It was Alapaki's question. Do you want to ask about how they determine their - -- MR. NAHALE -A: We are reviewing Section 3 -16, Mandatory Program Review. The Charter is mandating a schedule that every funded program gets reviewed. The interpretation was that that's the budget process. I'm fine with that; my question was more that if the Council wanted to have a program reviewed critically, they had some other process to use. So, we wanted to know what that process was. MR. SHIBATA: If the Council wants to review any department or program of the County, the Council could request - - -put in a resolution to have the Legislative Auditor's office go in and do an audit of whatever program or department. MR. NAHALE -A: Would you be mandated to honor that request? MR. SHIBATA: Yes, probably what the Legislative Auditor would do is look at our schedule and see if we could fit that audit into our schedule and our plan. MR. NAHALE -A: So, your interpretation is the Auditor has some -- -they can push back the request -- -can't schedule it in for six months, eight months or - -- MR. SHIBATA: I guess it depends if she has the ability to fit that into our plan, our schedule, she would be able to do that. 15