BUILDING PERMITS
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An unannounced cash audit by the Territorial Audit Office (TAO) of building permit fees collected by the Department of Public Works identified discrepancies such as missing cash collections of more than $3,000, prompting TAO to write directly to Gov. Lemanu Peleti...

![TAO said it questioned the Cash custodian on the shortage, and she explained that the cash was used to purchase supplies for the office and other urgently needed items for the department per instructions from the deputy director and “this has been the common practice for some time,” TAO acting director Sualauvi Su’a wrote to the governor in the report dated Mar. 8th. [photo: PASAI website] TAO acting director Sualauvi Su’a](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/tao_acting_director_sualauvi_sua.jpg?itok=q6f62P8i)