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A call to scrap a previously sought top-down internal review of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation was postponed this week.
HART’s board of directors Tuesday was set to consider a recommendation from its Internal Audit Committee to cancel a 2023 internal audit solicitation.
However, Internal Audit Committee Chair Edwin Young, who urged the cancellation of the internal audit until a better option could be found, was not in attendance.
Although he showed virtually to the board meeting Tuesday morning, Young appeared to suffer technical difficulties but eventually used his phone to converse with the rest of the panel. Still, HART officials did not immediately say why Young was absent from the latter half of the same meeting.
Due to Young’s absence, HART board Chair Colleen Hanabusa requested discussion on the item be suspended.
“We should have a clear understanding of what the (committee) chair’s position is,” she said, “so I think it’s in our interest to defer this matter.”
According to its website, HART issued the latest internal audit solicitation in August,…
