City of Asheville staff are recommending waiving the requirements to bid out their auditing, preferring to continue working with Dixon Hughes. Staff cites savings in time and money. Timing is likely moot, since the mayor was the only person publicly expressing aggravation at the city’s late filing of financial information when its CEO resigned, the department was restructured, and new software was being introduced, among other chaos-inducing factors; and she appeared to be much ado about nothing. The costs are of interest, but it does not smell quite right for the organization in question to suggest waiving checks in balances designed to keep said organization on the up-and-up.