McHenry County officials are proposing big changes for the county’s auditor to allow the office to focus on its statutory duty: Auditing.
McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks announced Tuesday that he will ask the Finance and Audit Committee to back a proposal he built with a cadre of county officials to transfer the functions of accounting and financial reporting from the auditor’s office to the Finance Division of County Administration.
That would allow the auditor’s office to focus on auditing and investigating waste, fraud and abuse,…