COOS COUNTY — There will be no performance audit of the Coos County operations this year as the delegation decided in a special meeting Saturday afternoon that the middle of a pandemic was not a time to undertake such a review. Members of the delegation stressed they were not opposed to a performance audit but felt the timing was not appropriate.
The delegation had scheduled the special meeting after Rep. Dennis Thompson (R-Colebrook) made a motion at the quarterly meeting in February to have a performance audit performed.
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