In the April 10, 2018, issue of the Register-Guard, Eugene resident Joel Deese writes in a letter:

Brian Wanty’s letter reached a false conclusion (“Auditors not seen as significant,” April 5). First, he neglected to cite any of the hard evidence, from numerous cities, that auditing improves local government administration. Secondly, quoting two studies of government management practices, he stated several practices were superior to performance auditing because “neither of these recent overviews found performance auditing effective enough to warrant a mention.” Performance auditing is not a part of management, so we shouldn’t assume the researchers even considered it. …