This page outlines the terms of reference for the City's Finance and Responsible Governance Committee.
Strategic Vision
- Support the services our community needs while keeping tax increases low
- Maintain focus on city core services
- Financial stewardship which includes finding efficiencies and innovation
- Advocating to other levels of government for support
- Ensure accountability and transparency
- Champion equity, diversity, and inclusion
Reference Committee Role
The role of a Reference Committee is to provide advice and guidance to City Council
(through General Committee) on the direction and nature of policy development and to
complete fact finding and detailed analysis of the matters before the Reference Committee.
Reference Committees deal with matters within the duties of the individual Committee,
matters referred to it by City Council, and/or items of an Advisory Committee that reports to it. The business dealt with by each Reference Committee must fall within the duties of the Reference Committee under the Procedural By-law.
Finance & Responsible Governance Committee Duties
To the General Committee on matters within the following subjects:
Corporate sustaining matters including financial (capital and operating budgets, revenue
and taxation, financial policies, procurement and audit functions), internal audit, legal, real
estate, risk management, information technology, legislative, court, human resources,
Intergovernmental, Service and Community Partner relations, history, archives, customer
service and communications.
The International Relations Committee (an advisory Committee) reports to the Finance & Responsible Governance Committee.
Finance & Responsible Governance Committee Members
- Mayor, A. Nuttall – ex-officio
- Deputy Mayor. R. Thomson - ex-officio
- Councillor, G. Harvey, Chair
- Councillor, A.M. Kungl