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Council sends proposed internal-audit contract to legal committee; mayor's nomination pulled for review
Summary
City council referred a proposed professional services contract for internal audit to the legal committee after extensive questions about the city's authority to contract for the auditor role; Mayor Jennings' nomination of Judy Sharper was withdrawn pending legal review.
Mayor Tim Jennings moved forward a pair of related items on the council agenda Wednesday: a professional services contract to provide the city’s internal-audit function and his nomination of Judy Sharper to serve as the city’s internal auditor. Councilors voted 10–0 to refer the contract (agenda item 21, renumbered 2A) back to the legal committee for review before the council takes final action. Council members also agreed that the mayor would withdraw and later re-submit his nomination of Judy Sharper after legal committee work to align the contract language with the city code. The referral followed roughly an hour of public and council questioning about whether the city’s code allows the governing body to fill…
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