CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMMITTEE FOR LEGISLATIVE AUDIT AND REVIEW (§ 15.2-825)

The board may establish a committee for the audit and review of county agencies
and county-funded functions. The committee shall be composed of not more than
eleven members who shall be appointed by the board for a term of two years. The
committee shall have the power to make performance reviews of operations of
county agencies or county-funded programs to ascertain that sums appropriated
are expended for the purposes for which such appropriations were made and to
evaluate the effectiveness of those agencies and programs. The committee shall
make such special studies and reports as it deems appropriate and as the board
requests. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 15.2-1534, the board may appoint
one or more of its members to serve on this committee.The board may provide
staff assistance to the committee which shall be independent of the
administrative staff of the county. Any such staff shall be hired on the basis
of merit and shall be paid in conformity with existing pay scales. The director
of the staff to the committee shall serve at the pleasure of the board, and if
removed, such removal shall not be subject to review by any other employee,
agency, board or commission of the county or under the grievance procedure
adopted pursuant to § 15.2-1506. The director of any such staff shall be known
as the auditor of the board.

HISTORY: 1992, c. 524, § 15.1-765.2; 1993, cc. 621, 781; 1995, c. 722; 1997, c.
587.