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Mandate
The Compliance Audit Committee is mandated by the Municipal Elections Act and governed by City of Orillia By-law 2018-81. The Act requires that, before October 1st in an election year, Council establish a compliance audit committee for the purposes of Section 88.33 of the Act relative to a possible contravention of the Act's election campaign finance provisions.
Purpose
The Compliance Audit Committee is an investigative/adjudicative body created to enforce provincially enacted laws related to municipal election campaign funding.
The City of Orillia has partnered with the following Simcoe County municipalities to appoint a Compliance Audit Committee that will serve jointly for the 2018-2022 Council term: Clearview, Collingwood, Midland, Oro-Medonte, Penetanguishene, Ramara, Severn, Springwater, Tay, Tiny, Wasaga Beach and the City of Orillia. All participating municipalities have passed by-laws to establish the committee and appoint the five (5) members.
An application may be submitted by an elector who is entitled to vote in the municipal election and believes on reasonable grounds that a candidate or registered third party advertiser has contravened a provision of the Municipal Elections Act relating to election campaign finances.
The Committee's purpose is to consider these compliance audit applications and decide whether it should be granted or rejected. If granted, the Committee would then proceed as follows:
- To appoint an auditor
- To consider the auditor's report and decide whether legal proceedings should be commenced
- To recover the costs of conducting the audit from the applicant if there was no apparent contravention or if there appears to be no reasonable grounds for having made the application.
Meeting Dates
The Joint Compliance Audit Committee held its first meeting on Monday, December 17, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. at the County of Simcoe Administration Building. Following this inaugural meeting, the committee will only meet when an audit application is received.
The County of Simcoe Clerk will facilitate the compliance audit process. Within ten (10) days of a municipal clerk receiving an application, it will be provided to the Joint Compliance Audit Committee. All reasonable notice of meetings to the public, candidate or third party advertiser, and applicant will be provided.
Deadline to Submit Application for a Compliance Audit: Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Contact
Gayle Jackson, CAO/City Clerk: 705-329-7232
