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Consider Directing Staff to Place the Audit Report Approved April 20, 2021 on a Future Agenda to Allow the City Auditor to Give a Presentation. (Councilmember Herrera Spencer)
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COUNCIL REFERRAL FORM
The Council can take any of the following actions:
1) Take no action.
2) Refer the matter to staff to schedule as a future City Council agenda item. Concurrence that staff time will be devoted to the item does not signify approval.
3) Take dispositive action only on time sensitive legislative matters if sufficiently noticed such that the public and Council have been provided sufficient information by the published agenda, and no formal published notice of a public hearing is required.
Name of Councilmember requesting referral: Councilmember Trish Herrera Spencer
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): 5/3/2021
Council Meeting date: 5/18/2021
Brief description of the subject to be printed on the agenda, sufficient to inform the City Council and public of the nature of the referral:
At the City Council Agenda April 20, 2021, Special Meeting of the Successor Agency to the Community Improvement Commission (SACIC), Agenda Item 2-C, Recommendation to Accept the Fiscal Year 2019-20 Audited Financial Statements and Compliance Reports, the City Auditor Kevin Kearney was precluded from completing his remarks. Auditor Kevin Kearney had contacted staff prior to the April 20, 2021 meeting (similar to what he always does) informing staff that he would be calling in via Zoom to speak on the item. There may have been a misunderstanding between staff prior to the meeting or by staff when they agendized the item, however, the elected City Auditor was given only two minutes to speak and was not allowed to complete his report. At that time, my motion to extend his speaking time required a supermajority of Council to pass and failed since only three councilmembers supported (...
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