In the July 15, 2017, issue of the Register-Guard, Eugene resident Brian Weaver writes in a letter:
In response to the recent ballot initiative for an independent city auditor, the Eugene mayor has suddenly proposed that the city launch a process for an in-house performance auditor, controlled by the city. Expecting the public to trust such an auditor would be like asking the public to trust self-auditing corporations, in the event the IRS decided that those corporations would therefore be exempt from IRS tax audits. …