Audit: NC funeral board didn’t keep some minutes

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - An audit says the state board that licenses North Carolina funeral home directors and embalmers failed to maintain properly the minutes from the board’s closed sessions.
    State Auditor Beth Wood’s office said Tuesday the state Board of Funeral Service acknowledged to auditors that formal minutes of the closed sessions had not been created in recent years. Board staff members also couldn’t locate the notes from those meetings.
    North Carolina law requires a public body to keep a “general account” of a closed session.
    Board President Larry Andrews said in the audit response the board is taking action to ensure the minutes are completed.
    The investigative audit occurred after Wood’s office received a complaint.
   
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