Amherstburg Council is set to get some money help from the new Audit and Finance Advisory Committee.
Mayor Aldo DiCarlo hopes part of what the new committee can do is improve public trust in the municipality as staff and council work towards correcting financial problems, which saw most of the last council voted out of office.
"I think in our day-to-day operations here at the town and our council meetings, the residents see that we will defnitely be accountable and as transparent as possible and this committee should help do that," says DiCarlo.
The new committee means checking off another of the 41 recommendations of the Deloitte report, looking at financial practices and tackling the town's $46-million debt.
"We need to get a count on [the number of recommendations completed] from adminstration, but I think residents will see that we're checking them off pretty quick," says DiCarlo.
Council approved the new committee at Monday night's meeting, which will consist of two councillors and five residents or ratepayers in Amherstburg, as well as the town's director of financial services and a member from the local chamber of commerce.
