Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1980-01-16
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note: ■■ wm ?arUar^B^^ Jan 80 Dismissed auditors not happy MURRAYVILLE - A Vancouver firm who has acted as auditors for the township of Langley for the past 30 years did not take kindly to being granted their walking papers by the new council. Campbell Sharp, chartered accountants, were pushed aside when Mayor George Preston at last month's inaugural meeting appointed a Langley city firm to take over the duties. A spokesman for Campbell Sharp who says his company was reappointed in February of 1979 by a former council for a three-year term, adds that they were not given an adequate reason for the termination of this agreement. He says company 'officials consider it breach ,of contract. They have complained to the municipal affairs ministry in Victoria and the matter is currently under investigation by the attorney-general's department. Two representatives for the company attended this week's meeting of council as a delegation. The spokesman for the group asked for "satisfaction" from council in the form of. a written "cause for dismissal". In all the years they had finished the municipality's yearly financial statements, he' said, there had never been any criticism levied. .-,' ., Preston said he was reluctant to discuss the matter since the company, by lodging complaints with Victoria, had "gone to head office." "Council has to prepare its defense," he said. The mayor added, however, that it was not a case of. dismissal but rather that j Campbell Sharp had not been j reappointed by the 1980' council. It was sound business practise, he said, to appoint new auditors once in a while, and that was all his council had done. "But it is almost impossible for a municipality to change autiors," he said. When Preston referred to the appointment of the new auditors, Piskorik. Baker & Zacher, as a council decision, there were dissenting voices from the aldermen. ■ Aid. Ian Strachan said since he was new on council he automatically took it for granted that the new appointment was jus…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0420903
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
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