by Lisa Halverstadt - Sept. 19, 2012 09:45 PM
The Republic | azcentral.com
Glendale residents could soon play a larger role in the city's budget process.
City staffers earlier this month suggested forming an audit committee that would review city financial statements and annual external audits and push for plans to resolve issues that come up during the process.
The five-member committee would include two Glendale residents, two council members and the city manager.
City Council members lauded the proposal at the Sept. 4 workshop.
"I love this," Councilwoman Joyce Clark said. "I love the idea of an audit committee and the layer of transparency it brings to Glendale government."
Mayor Elaine Scruggs said the committee would give residents more faith in the city's processes. "What people (have seen in the past) is that things are very closely held among a small group of people," she said.
The proposal comes as council candidates and residents raise questions about city spending decisions and the potential for additional cuts to city services in coming years.
Most candidates have called for a comprehensive, outside audit that goes beyond the routine reviews that government entities must complete.
In recent years, Phoenix-based accounting firm Heinfeld, Meech and Co. P.C. has reviewed city spending and revenue. The city will request bids from other companies next month.
This past year, the calls for additional oversight increased as the city faced a $35 million budget shortfall. The council cut department spending, eliminated 49 positions and hiked the city sales tax by 0.7 percentage point.
But the sales-tax increase, which is expected to generate about $20 million this year, could be eliminated with a proposed ballot measure that seeks to reverse the increase and require public votes on future tax increases.
Residents who support the measure say they should have been consulted before the council approved the increase in June.
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