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Mandate
The Compliance Audit Committee is mandated by the Municipal Elections Act and governed by Orillia By-law 2018-81. The Act requires that, before October 1st in an election year, Council establish a complicance 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.
The Committee's purpose is to consider compliance audit applications submitted by an elector who is entitled to vote in the municipal election and believes on reasonable grounds that a candidate for the municipal election has contravened a provision of the Municipal Elections Act relating to election campaign finances and decide whether it should be granted or rejected
- 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.
Committee Members
The Joint Committee currently consists of five members.
Regular Meeting Date
The Compliance Audit Committee meets only when an audit application is received.
Contact
Gayle Jackson, CAO/City Clerk: 705-329-7232
