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REPORT
CLERK'S DEPARTMENT
Date:
GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Meeting:
Report #: Report CLD-031-07
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Subject:
COMPLIANCE AUDIT - JOHN MUTTON
RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration Committee
recommend to Council the following:
1. THAT Report CLD-031-07 be received;
2. THAT the resignation of James Horn, Auditor for the compliance audit of John Mutton, be
accepted;
3. THAT the Municipal Clerk be directed to seek another auditor to complete the compliance
audit of John Mutton and report back; and
4. THAT John Mutton, James Horn, Luke Prout, Cynthia Prout, Sean Keane and
George VanDyk be advised of Council's decision.
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Franklin Wu,
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REPORT NO.: CLD-031-07
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At the Council meeting of June 25, 2007, a resolution was passed to grant the request for a
compliance audit of the election financial returns of John Mutton and to appoint Horn Almand
Chartered Accountants as the auditor to conduct the audit. On July 12, 2007, the decision was
amended to delete the reference to one of the original requesters but to otherwise confirm the
earlier decision of Council.
On September 11,2007, Mr. Jim Horn of Horn Almand Chartered Accountants advised that he
was resigning from this project. Mr. Horn has been unable to get Mr. Mutton to return his calls.
He has received two unsolicited packages from electors, one of whom had originally requested
the compliance audit of Mr. Mutton. The information in these packages raised a number of
concerns that Mr. Horn considered were not included in the original request for the compliance
audit.
Based on his inability to contact Mr. Mutton and the scope of concerns raised in the two
packages, Mr. Horn advises that the matter is more than the standard compliance audit and that
the scope is considerably more than represented to him in June of 2007.
As Council has granted the request for the compliance audit, staff will once again begin the
process of finding an auditor to complete the project and report back.