In the July 6, 2017, issue of the Eugene Weekly, Eugene resident David Funk writes in a letter:
As far as I can tell, Bonny Bettman McCornack (Viewpoint, 6/29) is offering a solution to a problem we don’t appear to have. She claims that there is escalating community distrust of city government, a claim backed up by nothing. This is the opposite of what I hear. In my experience most everyone I know is proud that our city government is so untainted by the kind of corruption that plagues other cities in our country.
This initiative only adds to the city bureaucracy and an already strained budget, and sows seeds of distrust and division in the community. This is an issue that needs to be discussed publicly and without rancor to determine if we really need an independent auditor or if there are other ways to proceed if we do need one. Narrowing the discussion to only one option is not good policy. …