AGLG announces new Auditees

Courtesy of the Office of the BC Auditor General for Local Government:

The Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) has identified new auditees on the topics “Emergency Management in Local Governments” and "Local Government's Role in Ensuring Clean Drinking Water," AGLG Gordon Ruth announced today.

The Township of Langley has been added as a new auditee under the topic "Local Government's Role in Ensuring Clean Drinking Water." This addition makes a total of three auditees under this topic. The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen has been audited, with the final report available on the AGLG website. The audit of the City of Kelowna is underway.

Under the audit topic "Emergency Management in Local Governments," the AGLG had previously announced that the auditees would be the Town of Sidney, Capital Regional District, the City of Quesnel and Cariboo Regional District. However, with the recent devastation caused by wildfires in the Cariboo, we understand that the Province of B.C. has commissioned a comprehensive independent review in the region. The AGLG has decided to not duplicate this work, and has revised the list of auditees on this topic to include the Town of Sidney, Capital Regional District, the District of Mission and the Fraser Valley Regional District.

Since the office opened in 2013, the AGLG has audited 23 local governments under six audit topics. The AGLG has released 24 performance audit reports to date, which include:

• Achieving Value for Money in Operational Procurement
• Learnings from Local Government Capital Procurement Projects and Asset Management Programs
• Local Government Performance in Managing Policing Agreements and Police Budget Oversight
• Local Government’s Role in Ensuring Clean Drinking Water
• Managing the Inherent Risks of Limited Human Resources within Small Local Governments
• Emergency Management in Local Governments

All of our publications are available on the AGLG website (www.aglg.ca). The AGLG’s Annual Service Plan describes the performance audit planning process in detail and the office’s 2016/17 Annual Report outlines the office’s progress during that year. Both of these can also be found on the AGLG website