OpenCdA has been told that on September 1, 2016, Dane Dugan, the General Manager of the North Idaho Fair submitted his resignation to the Fair’s Board of Directors.  Dugan has reportedly left to pursue other opportunities.

If Dugan has in fact resigned, then the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners should quickly agree to seek a forensic audit of the North Idaho Fair’s financial records.

Apparent conflicts between the Fair’s annual external audit and Kootenai County’s own internal audit had prompted Kootenai County Clerk Jim Brannon to recommend the forensic audit be conducted after this year’s Fair ended.

With Dugan’s apparent departure, OpenCdA urges the Fair Board to join in the request for a forensic audit.  Because Dugan had also been receiving an income from the Fair Foundation, we hope that the Fair Board Foundation will also voluntarily submit all its financial records for inspection during the same forensic audit.

This is an opportunity for the Fair Board and the Fair Foundation to ensure their financial records are truly squeaky clean.  It will allow the North Idaho State Fair to proceed with a clean record toward improving next year’s North Idaho State Fair.