In a story by Kira Erickson, she reports that at the request of Mayor Scott Chaplin, the Langley City Council has authorized the creation of a finance and personnel committee that will be led by citizen volunteers.
The Langley Municipal Code already outlines the responsibilities of such a committee:
deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to financial management of the city and its agents, the personnel system, the annual budget, taxes and fees, financial audits, appropriations, debts, claims, data processing, human rights and administration of city funds.”
What they said:
Mayor Scott Chaplin: “I think it would probably benefit us by having such a committee. We have some people in the community who have a wealth of experience in this area and just having a second, or third, or fourth set of eyes to help us as we’re going through the budgets and planning our finances is sometimes useful.”
[When asked why create a new committee now when applicants for a different committee were on hold,] Chaplin responded that the council will be reviewing all of the city commissions and boards at its first meeting in January and might decide then to not move ahead with the finance committee. “It just gives us more options by having it established now. The council, in 2022, can take it back if they don’t want it.”
