# 09/29/26 Metropolitan Nashville Audit Committee

The Metropolitan Nashville Audit Committee met on September 29, 2026. The committee approved the prior meeting’s minutes and heard audit reports on the assessor’s office, Metro Parks and the Public Library, and invoice monitoring for multi-department contracts. The assessor’s office audit found generally strong practices and transparency, with improvement areas including conflict-of-interest and recusal documentation, records retention, and audit trails; no procurement award or spending action was taken on that item.

Investigations identified weak inventory controls over library supplies and Parks equipment. The library investigation found an employee used a Metro vendor account to purchase three paper-towel dispensers for a church, producing an estimated $311 in Metro pricing and delivery benefits; Parks described new inventory coordinators, twice-yearly inventory checks, a SharePoint tracking process, and use of eBid or Metro surplus for equipment dispositions. The committee also discussed invoice verification and vendor performance on multi-department engineering contracts, including a proposed cost-benefit analysis of expanded invoice reviews. Finance reported required procurement-summit training for departments with delegated purchasing authority, a vendor-performance framework, and procurement-code changes clarifying grounds for vendor suspension or debarment. Internal Audit plans future follow-up on the Parks controls; no contract awards or new spending approvals were identified.

**Jurisdictions:** sled
**Industries:** Construction & Infrastructure, Professional Services
**Topics:** Policy, Regulatory Compliance
**Published:** September 29, 2026

### Sources
- [09/29/26 Metropolitan Nashville Audit Committee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua28wqR15sE) - Metro Nashville Network