Sun Valley Water & Sanitation District excels in State Auditor's required annual audit. Only 4 goventment entities in Lincoln County had no findings

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 Local government entities fared well in audit review

Dianne L Stallings , Ruidoso News 8:05 a.m. MDT October 18, 2016

Several entities in the county were noted as going two consecutive years with no findings in a report from the Government Accountability Office under the Office of the State Auditor

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• No entity in the county slid onto the most findings list

Entities in Lincoln County fared well in a report prepared by the New Mexico state auditor’s office. Several received no findings in their Fiscal Year 2015 annual audits and none of them appeared on the lists cited for significant problems or failure to file audits.

The summary appears in a report from the Government Accountability Office under State Auditor Tim Keller issued last month. The state auditor’s office conducts and oversees all annual audits of New Mexico’s governmental entities. One of the office’s goals is to reestablish the notion of a “purpose-driven auditing for entities to use audits for what they were originally intended: to provide a roadmap for improved financial health,” the report states. The summary focuses on the audit opinions, types of annual findings and repeated findings.

“Findings are not an absolute negative,” according to the report, “but rather a key piece of the continual improvement of how our government is working.”
 
Thirty-three state agencies had no findings, along with the counties of Chaves and Dona Ana. Eastern New Mexico University received a clean bill of financial health for the second consecutive year, along with the village of Corona, the 12th Judicial district attorney, Greentree Solid Waste and Sun Valley Water and Sanitation District.