Lake Worth's Internal Auditor Agreement being signed tonight

On tonight's city commission agenda is the employment agreement for the Internal Auditor, Kenneth Oakes.

For services rendered under this Agreement, the City will pay Employee on the same schedule that it pays other employees, in equal payments determined by dividing One Hundred and Five Thousand Dollars ($105,000) by the number of pay periods in a calendar year. City shall also provide and pay for the costs of employee benefits that are provided and paid for any other employee within employee’s City salary range. Said salary amount may be increased by the City without opening and/or amending this Agreement and/or Section.

My only question is, why didn't you offer this same salary to highly qualified Robert Marksmeier?

As one former applicant said, "I got the feeling that the Internal Audit Plan should not contain anything of what Management desires but should contain 100% of what the Commission desires to be done. That would not be a risk based internal audit plan because the Internal Auditor would not be able to identify risk with City Management even though City Management knows where the risks are much more than a governing body would."