Supervisors Urge Audit of Job Agency
Two Ventura County supervisors are calling for a financial review of the millions of dollars that flow through the local Job Training Policy Council, an agency that seeks to put poor people to work.
Supervisors John K. Flynn and Susan K. Lacey will ask the Board of Supervisors today to approve a request for an auditor to review the financial records of the council, which spends more than $11 million a year on various job-training programs.
Lacey said she is asking for the review primarily because of a law passed in 1992 that makes local elected officials partly responsible for the finances.
“Before, we appointed the board members, met and agreed on the way they worked, but we had no direct liability or power,” Lacey said.
Armando Lopez, a spokesman for the job-training council, said he welcomed the review.
“That’s in keeping with the spirit of cooperation this agency has with the county,” he said.
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