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Council approves audit-charter changes, appoints citizen member to audit committee
Summary
The Provo City Council approved amendments to its council audit committee and internal audit charters—renaming auditing categories, requiring audit training, and designating a chief audit executive—and confirmed a public member to the audit committee (5–0 with one abstention).
The Provo City Council on a unanimous vote approved amendments to the council audit committee charter and the internal audit charter, changing terminology and adding training and ethics requirements for committee members.
The amendments, presented by Tanner Tecuci, council policy analyst, rename the prior "external" and "internal" audit language to "financial" and "performance" audit categories and add a written definition of "performance auditing," intended to broaden the scope of performance reviews. "We're just changing that vernacular from referring to external and internal to financial and performance in the audit charter," Tecuci said.
The changes also designate the council executive director as the council's chief audit executive, add explicit steps for responding to fraud-hotline complaints filed through the city's portal, and require members of the audit committee to receive audit training provided by the Office of the Legislative Auditor General. Councilor Gary Garrett asked whether the new training was in addition to state-required training; Tecuci said the training "would be more aimed at the audit function itself and not, like, a personal standard of ethics or conduct," and that council staff would coordinate with the auditor's office to schedule it.
After discussion and no public comment, councilors voted to approve the charter amendments by an implied motion recorded 6–0. The council then considered a related resolution to appoint a public member to the standing audit committee; Tecuci said the nominee had prior audit-committee service and a background in banking and finance. The appointment was approved, recorded as passing with five votes in favor and one abstention.
The amendments were presented as non-code, resolution-based changes intended to clarify roles and make committee composition more flexible; Tecuci said the changes enable the council to request both internal and outside audit work as needed, including RFPs for outside auditors when a broader review is required. The council did not identify any immediate fiscal effect from the charter changes.
The council's action closes the matter for this meeting; the nominee will serve the term described during the presentation.
