With current City Auditor Corrie Stokes set to retire at the end of the year, City Council is coming up with a game plan. The city auditor is one of the few positions that Council appoints directly and, to do so, the code stipulates that members of the Audit and Finance Committee serve as a nominating committee that recommends a new auditor within 90 days of the office being vacated with Council acting on that recommendation within 30 days. Working well ahead of that timeline, Mayor Kirk Watson proposed on the City Council Message Board that they start the process mid-May, with an aim to select candidates in September and appoint a new auditor in November.
Elizabeth Pagano is the editor of the Austin Monitor. More by Elizabeth Pagano