Town of Clarkstown, NY
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2024-03-12
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 8 Audit Committee
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Appearance Tickets
- Ch 5 Architectural Historic Review Board
- Ch 6 Assessor, Office of
- Ch 8 Audit Committee
- § 8-1 Committee created.
- § 8-2 Purpose.
- § 8-3 Organization.
- § 8-4 Membership.
- § 8-5 Duties and responsibilities.
- § 8-6 When effective.
- Ch 10 (Reserved)
- Ch 13 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Engineering and Facilities Management, Department of
- Ch 18 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 25 (Reserved)
- Ch 40 (Reserved)
- Ch 41 Planning Board
- Ch 42 Planning Board and Board of Appeals Members, Certification of
- Ch 43 Planning Department
- Ch 45 Police Department
- Ch 47 Purchasing, Department of
- Ch 59 Residency Requirements
- Ch 68 Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board
- Ch 71 Ward District Boundaries
- Ch 84 (Reserved)
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 91 Burglar Alarm Device Control
- Ch 93 Alcoholic Beverages and Drugs
- Ch 95 Amusement Devices
- Ch 102 Bingo and Games of Chance
- Ch 109 Building Construction Administration
- Ch 110 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 111 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 112 Graffiti
- Ch 113 (Reserved)
- Ch 117 Circuses and Carnivals
- Ch 119 Community Choice Aggregation Program
- Ch 120 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 126 Massage Establishments
- Ch 128 Drainage and Watercourses
- Ch 133 Electrical Installations
- Ch 136 Explosives
- Ch 139 Filming
- Ch 140 Firearms
- Ch 141 Fingerprinting
- Ch 143 Fire Prevention
- Ch 146 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 149 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 151 (Reserved)
- Ch 153 Historic Road Preservation
- Ch 155 Home Buyers, Protection of
- Ch 157 Housing Standards
- Ch 170 Landscaper Licensing
- Ch 173 Littering and Posting
- Ch 180 Memorial Day Activities
- Ch 188 Notification of Defects
- Ch 198 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 200 Parking
- Ch 202 Parks and Recreation Facilities
- Ch 205 Noise
- Ch 208 Peddling, Hawking and Soliciting
- Ch 212 Plumbing
- Ch 216 Property Maintenance
- Ch 220 Quarrying and Blasting
- Ch 224 Records
- Ch 226 Recycling
- Ch 231 (Reserved)
- Ch 236 Sewers
- Ch 239 (Reserved)
- Ch 240 Shopping Center Parking Areas
- Ch 243 Signs
- Ch 244 Sign Contractors, Licensing of
- Ch 246 Site Plan Review
- Ch 247 Solar Power
- Ch 248 (Reserved)
- Ch 249 (Reserved)
- Ch 249A Stormwater Management
- Ch 250 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 251 Wireless Telecommunications Facilities
- Ch 254 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 256 (Reserved)
- Ch 258 Swimming Pools
- Ch 262 Taxation
- Ch 263 Term Limits
- Ch 269 (Reserved)
- Ch 270 Tree Preservation
- Ch 278 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 290 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A295 Board of Appeals Rules
- Ch A305 Police Regulations
- Ch A308 Public Improvements, Procedure for Acceptance
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Clarkstown 1-31-2017 by L.L. No. 1-2017. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter creates an external Audit Committee for the Town
of Clarkstown.
The purpose of this chapter is to create a new chapter of the
Town Code of the Town of Clarkstown to provide for the creation of
an external Audit Committee to advise and make recommendations to
the Town Board and Town Comptroller with regard to fiscal responsibility
and reform in the Town of Clarkstown.
There shall be an external Audit Committee for the Town of Clarkstown,
which shall consist of three private members appointed by the Supervisor
and the Town Board. All private members shall serve for a three-year
term commencing on the first day of January 2017. The members of the
Audit Committee shall elect a private member as chairperson for an
annual term commencing on the first day of January 2017.
The private members of the external Audit Committee shall include
at least one person with expertise in finance, one person with expertise
in accounting, and one person with expertise in either finance, accounting
or both. Private members shall serve in an advisory capacity and without
compensation. Private members shall continue in office until their
successors have been appointed and qualified.
The external Audit Committee shall:
A.
Recommend
to the Town Board the selection of a firm of certified public accountants
to perform the required annual audit of the Town's accounts.
B.
Review
and approve the audit scope to be performed by the selected firm of
certified public accountants.
C.
Meet
with the Supervisor, Comptroller and certified public accountants
at completion of the audit to review audited financial statements
and review the audit firm's recommendations for improvement of
internal control.
D.
Follow
up on the Town's implementation of the auditor's recommendations
which are considered practicable.
E.
Provide
counsel on the selection of the actuarial firm to perform the actuarial
evaluation required by GASB 45.
This chapter shall become effective immediately upon filing
with the Secretary of State.
