Council Calls Special Meeting for Tuesday

The City Council has called a special meeting for Tuesday morning to “discuss and consider” the financial ad-hoc committee it established last week.

Councilman Derek Reeve said the scope of Tuesday's meeting will be to select members for the ad-hoc committee. “I believe the council will consider selecting members or making it a mayoral committee. The latter will avoid the Brown Act,” he said.

The committee was set up following a proposal from Councilwoman Laura Freese to conduct forensic audits of the Community Redevelopment Agency and the utilities department. At that meeting, Mayor Sam Allevato said he and Reeve, both members of the city’s budget and finance committee, would select residents to join them on the ad-hoc committee.

It would then be up to the ad-hoc committee to select an auditor and a more defined scope of what should be looked at, Allevato said.

“The entire state, especially municipalities, are being looked at under a microscope,” Freese said March 14. “It would serve us all very well to be able to hand over to a squeaky-clean portfolio where we say, ‘Yes, this is where we are right now.’ ”

There is no staff memo accompanying the March 22 agenda. The agenda is posted as a special meeting, because it does not fall under the City Council’s regular meeting schedule.

The council is meeting in closed session nearly all of today, Monday, to interview potential candidates for the .

The special City Council meeting starts at 9 a.m. in Council Chambers in City Hall, 32400 Paseo Adelanto.