- Well, it's important for a lot of reasons.

One is, to your point about how do you know an audit's coming?

The more visible we are, the more people understand more what the State Auditor does, that we're not there to audit people's individual income tax returns.

That we are accountability on behalf of the taxpayer.

We wanna shine a light.

We want things to be transparent.

We wanna look at processes and procedures.

And we also, the more people understand our office, we're also able to communicate that it can be a cooperative effort.

It doesn't have to be adversarial.

It can be we are here to help move things along.

And it's not always throwing Molotov cocktails, as I like to say.

It is getting in there, getting in the weeds and trying to figure out how we do things more efficiently and effectively with taxpayer dollars to get a true return on investment.