Port of Seattle Commission

AUDIT COMMITTEE

September 7, 2023 – 9:00 a.m.

To be held in person at the Port of Seattle Headquarters

Building – Commission Chambers, Pier 69, 2711 Alaskan Way, Seattle, Washington.

You may view the full meeting live at meetings.portseattle.org.

To listen live from a remote location, call in at: +1 (425) 660-9954 or (833) 209-2690 and Conference ID

547 062 657#

Committee members:

Commissioner Hamdi Mohamed, Chair

Commissioner Sam Cho, Member

Committee Public Member Sarah Holmstrom

Also attending:

Glenn Fernandes, Internal Audit Director

Aaron Pritchard, Chief of Staff, Commission Services

Michelle Hart, Commission Clerk

Aubree Payne, Deputy Commission Clerk

ORDER OF BUSINESS

1. Call to Order

2. Approval of Minutes – June 30, 2023 (attached)

External Audits

3. Office of Washington State Auditor – 2022 Accountability Audit Opening (Report and Presentation)

Joseph Simmons, Program Manager; Maddie Frost-Shaffer, Assistant Audit Manager

Updates and Approval (Glenn Fernandes, Director, Internal Audit) (Presentation Items 4 – 8 and 12)

4. APPROVAL of 2024 Proposed Budget

5. Open Issue Status

6. 2023 Audit Plan Update

Performance Audits (Glenn Fernandes, Director, Internal Audit; Spencer Bright, Manager, Internal

Audit – Capital; Debbie Townsend, R.L. Townsend & Associates LLC; Patricia Farrell-Shear, R.L.

Townsend & Associates LLC)

7. C Concourse Expansion Project (Pre-Construction) (Report)

8. Main Terminal Low Voltage System Upgrade Project (Pre-Construction) (Report)

Information Technology Audits

(Glenn Fernandes, Director, Internal Audit; Ritika Marwaha,

Manager, Internal Audit - IT)

9. Performance Audit - Port-wide Payroll Controls (Carry-over IT issue only)

10. Email and Web Browser Protections (ICT and AVM)

11. Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Technical Audit Summary Report

Limited Contract Compliance Audits

(Glenn Fernandes, Director, Internal Audit)

12. Louis Dreyfus Company Washington LLC (Report)

Concluding Business

13. Committee Comments

14. Adjournment

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1. Information Technology audits are security sensitive and are not discussed in public meetings; all or part of the audit reports may

be exempt from public records disclosure under RCW 42.56.420.

2. The performance audit was presented at the June 30, 2023, Audit Committee meeting - Public Session with the exception of this

Security Sensitive, IT related issue. Since we did not hold a Non-public Session at that time, the issue has been carried over to this

Non-public Session.

3. This audit was performed by the Washington State Patrol. Internal Audit provides a summary report to the Audit Committee.