City Hall is being audited by the Auditor General’s Office, Mayor Patricia Chase-Green told city councillors on Monday.
At the council’s fortnightly statutory meeting on Monday, Chase-Green noted that the council had written to the Auditor-General Deodat Sharma and requested that an audit of the council’s financial systems be done.
She explained that the auditors arrived last week and they are currently working. She stated that the council would be looking forward to recommendations put forward by the auditors to improve their finances and record keeping.
PPP/C Councillor Bishram Kuppen had repeatedly called for a forensic audit to be conducted due to what he said were billions of dollars that were being spent by City Hall without any credible financial reports.
Kuppen had thrice attempted to move a motion for a forensic audit by submitting a written request to the Town Clerk to have the motion included on the agenda of the statutory meeting, but this never materialized.
“On each occasion,” Kuppen said, “the Town Clerk responded that he found fault with the motion but did not advise what the deficiencies were.”
Chase-Green had previously said that she was willing and ready to have the auditors review the council’s financial systems, and the council was ready to facilitate the examination of the systems and approaches to the management of its finances at the local level.
