Current City Auditor and one of the Post‘s most powerful people of 2012, Laura Doud, has announced that she will seek re-election for her office in next year’s election.

“I am very honored and humbled to have the opportunity to serve the citizens of Long Beach as their City Auditor,” said Doud in a statement. “I love this City. I was born here, I went to school here all the way from kindergarten to law school, and I have now had the privilege to serve as City Auditor for nearly eight years. We have accomplished a great deal but there is still so much more to be done to help ensure our City is properly managing the taxpayer’s dollars.”

Doud has been one of the city’s most effective auditors, publicly eschewing political affiliation in exchange for the simple thing: numbers.

This year alone, she urged the consolidation of the City’s fueling systems to avoid misuse, discovered millions of uncollected dollars due to delinquent business license accounts, and just so happened to score her third Bronze Knighton Award from the National Association of Local Government Auditors.

In 2012, she uncovered how the City’s Parks, Recreation and Marine Department was losing a massive chunk of its revenue, showcased how the Water Department’s over-estimation of budget costs led to excess reserves, discovered some $18M in uncollected parking tickets, and led an audit analyzing Animal Care Services that was partly responsible for the arrest of an embezzling ACS employee.

“It has been a very full year and an extremely rewarding four years,” Doud said. “There are many more areas where we can find opportunities for the City to improve. Also critically important is for us to focus on the implementation of recommendations in the audits that we have already issued to protect the City’s resources and the trust the taxpayers place in our city leaders.”

Currently, no other candidates for Doud’s position have stepped forward.

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