KENAI, Alaska - The mayor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough and several assembly members are opposed to an audit of operations at Central Peninsula Hospital that would have looked at a fatal shooting there last year.

Last month, the Central Kenai Peninsula Hospital Service Area Board sent a letter to the mayor and the assembly advising them to launch an investigation into hospital management.

The audit would have looked into a variety of management issues, and would have included an investigation into the November 2008 shooting.

But Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Dave Carey says the audit is outside his staff's purview, a redundant expense and could be insensitive to those affected by the shooting.

Service Area Board Chair Neal DuPerron says the mayor's decision was unexpected and disappointing.