The City of Burlington's Audit Committee is a standing committee of Council which studies and reports to Council on:
- Matters relating to financial reporting, accounting policies and practices, risk management, and internal control processes and systems
- Annual financial statements
- All external and internal audit matters, including selection of the external auditor, the annual audit of the City's financial statements and matters recommended by the external auditor and internal auditor
View the Audit Committee's Terms of Reference.
Meetings, agendas and minutes
The Audit Committee meets, as scheduled, on Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m.
Check out our Council and Committees Calendar for meeting dates, agendas and minutes for upcoming and past meetings.
Committee members
The committee is made up of both Council and community members.
- Councillor Kearns
- Councillor Sharman
- Mathew Moore
- Etienne Durafour
- Michael Di Iulio
- Kartik Gupta
- Mayor Marianne Meed Ward, an ex-officio voting member of the Committee
2026 Audit plan
Development Applications Review (carry-forward) |
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Project type: Performance audit Last audited: Never Department: Community Planning Proposed time frame: Q1 2026 Budgeted time: 105 hours |
Municipal Election Security audit |
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Project type: Operational and Cyber-security audit Last audited: Never Department: Legislative Services, HR, BDS Proposed time frame: Q2 2026 & Q4 2026 Budgeted time: 245 hours |
Use of External Consultants audit |
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Project type: Performance audit Last audited: Never Department: Corporate-wide Proposed time frame: Q3 2026 Budgeted time: 315 hours |
Software Licensing audit |
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Project type: Performance audit Last audited: Never Department: BDS Proposed time frame: Q4 2026-Q1 2027 Budgeted time: 315 hours |
Whistleblower Program Implementation |
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The City Auditor is working in conjunction with HR to develop a new Whistleblower Policy and Program for City employees. A new policy has been approved by the Executive Leadership Team in 2025 and implementation is scheduled for June 2026. The next steps including completing the competitive procurement for a third party vendor (in-progress), completing the privacy impact assessment (in-progress) on-boarding the vendor and executing a staff communications plan. After June 2026, this will be an operational program co-managed by the City Auditor and CHRO. |
View the approved Audit Plan for the Office of the City Auditor.
Recent audit reports to Audit Committee
Aquatics Space Allocation audit |
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Date to Audit Committee: March 4, 2025 Summary: This audit was performed at the direction of Audit Committee from motion memorandum COW-15-25. The objective of the audit was to obtain an independent audit of the documentation, decision making and compliance to the Council approved Procurement By-law. Audit Results: The RFP submission by Burlington Aquatics Devilrays (BAD) swim group was appropriately disqualified under the terms of the RFP. The RFP included a mandatory requirement of a “certificate of incorporation” which was not submitted by the BAD swim group by the RFP closing time. View the Aquatics Space Allocation Audit report. |
Automated Vehicle Location (AVL) audit |
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Date to audit committee: Dec. 3, 2025 Summary: An audit was conducted to evaluate the performance of the AVL system to determine whether City departments are obtaining value from utilizing the new tools and capabilities. Audit results: The AVL system was successfully implemented and achieved most of its stated objectives. The Corporate Fleet Services team utilize many but not all functionality of the AVL system whereas Management outside of RPF rarely utilize the system and therefore have realized limited benefits or value from the AVL system. View the Automated Vehicle Location (AVL) Audit. |
Community Grants audit |
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Date to audit committee: March 5, 2025 View the Community Grants audit full report. |
Cyber-Security audit (Detect and Respond) |
| Date to audit committee: March 5, 2025 Summary: The objective was to review the City’s cyber-security controls with a particular focus on the “Detect” and “Respond” security functions in version 7.1 of the CIS CSS (a total of 41 technical controls). Audit results: Six audit findings reported to Audit Committee confidentially in order to protect the security of the City's IT environment. |
Procurement audit |
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Date to audit committee: September 11, 2024 View the Procurement audit full report |
Cyber-security audit (protect controls) |
| Date to audit committee: March 6, 2024 Summary: This audit focused on the controls found within the ‘Protect’ area of the CIS CSS framework version 7.1 (97 technical controls related to firewalls, security configurations, anti-malware etc.). Audit results: Eleven audit findings reported to Audit Committee confidentially in order to protect the security of the City's IT environment. |
Environmental Stewardship Strategies audit |
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Date to audit committee: December 6, 2023 View the Environmental Stewardship Strategies audit full report. |
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project audit |
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Date to audit committee: December 6, 2023 View the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project audit full report. |
Cyber-Security Audit (‘Identify’ controls) |
| Date to audit committee: March 8, 2023 Summary: This audit focused on the controls found within the ‘Identify’ area of the CIS CSS framework version 7.1 (20 technical controls related to asset inventory, discovery tools, tracking tools/assets/software etc.). Audit results: Seven audit findings reported to Audit Committee confidentially in order to protect the security of the City's IT environment. |
Other reporting to Audit Committee
Whistleblower Policy and Program update |
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Date to audit committee: December 3, 2025 Summary: The report provides Council with a progress update towards the implementation of a Whistleblower Policy and Program. Major progress and milestones were achieved in 2025 and the Whistleblower Program is scheduled to go-live in Q2 2026. View the Whistleblower Policy and Program update. |
Status of Management Action Plans |
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Date to audit committee: March 4, 2026 Summary: A quarterly report detailing the follow-up of past audit recommendations. |
Quarterly Dashboard |
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Date to audit committee: March 4, 2026 Summary: A quarterly report identifying the Quarterly Dashboard for Office of the City Auditor. View the Quarterly Dashboard full report. |
Performance management process for the City Auditor |
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Date to audit committee: March 4, 2026 Summary: Annual report to Audit Committee detailing performance evaluation process for City Auditor, goals, KPIs. View the Performance management process for the City Auditor full report. |
Anti-Fraud Information and Education Program |
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Date to audit committee: December 4, 2024 View the Anti-Fraud Information and Education Program full report. |
Internal Audit Charter |
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Date to audit committee: September 11, 2024 View the Internal Audit Charter full report. |
Audit Committee Terms of Reference |
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Date to audit committee: June 12, 2024 |