Audit and Finance Committee (AFC) Special Called Meeting Transcript – 10/16/2025 Title: ATXN-1 (24hr) Channel: 1 - ATXN-1 Recorded On: 10/16/2025 6:00:00AM Original Air Date: 10/16/2025 Transcript Generated by SnapStream ================================== Please note that the following transcript is for reference purposes and does not constitute the official record of actions taken during the meeting. For the official record of actions of the meeting, please refer to the Approved Minutes. [10:00:37 AM] on October 16th, 2025, and I will call to order the special called meeting of the Austin audit and finance committee for the Austin city council. We are meeting in the city council chambers, which are located in city hall at 301 west second street, and we have a quorum of the committee present. We are here today to take up one item, and that is an executive session related to the discussion of personnel issues related to the appointment of a new city auditor. We will go into an executive session pursuant to 551074 of the Texas government code, which deals with personnel matters. If there's no objection, we will go into executive session. Hearing no objection, we will go into that excutive session at 10:01 A.M. I will come out at the end of the. There's not going to be any action by the committee today. So at the end of this executive session, I will return either wh all or part of the committee or none [10:01:38 AM] part of the committee or none at all, and adjourn the meeting after the executive session. We're in executive session. Thank you all. Let me say this I was mistaken. We will have an action item. There's the potential for an action item if we depending upon what happens today, we could come back and we could make recommendations to the full council with regard to some action for next week. So I made a mistake. That's the first one today. And we'll ignore it until we we'll [10:02:40 AM] ignore it until we we'll rectify it soon. Thank you. Councilmember alter, are you on? [10:45:16 AM] Councilmember alter, are you on? >> I am here. >> Excellent. Thank you. It's 1045 in the morning on October 16th, and we have been in executive session in the executive session pursuant to Texas government code section 551074. We took up personnel matters related to the hiring of a city auditor. We are now back in regular session, and we have one item. And that's the discussion of possible recommendation to council regarding candidates to interview for city auditor. Pursuant to our our charter and the charter sets the audit and finance committee as the nominations committee for the entire city council for our city auditor. And so I'll entertain a motion. And the motion is made by the mayor pro tem that pursuant to the requirements of the Austin city charter, the audit and finance committee acting as the nominations committee of the [10:46:16 AM] nominations committee of the Austin city council, recommends and nominates the following three people to be interviewed by the city council on Tuesday, October 21st, 2025. Spencer bright of Seattle, Washington. Suresh George of New York City and Jason hadavi of Austin, Texas. That motion is seconded by council member duchen. Is there discussion on the motion? Is there any objection? Without objection, the motion is adopted and those three people will be invited. You look like you want to say something. Okay. And those three people will be invited to be present on Tuesday, October 21st, for interview by the entire city council. Is there anything else you want to bring up? Okay. Members. Anything else to bring up? Since that completes the agenda of this special called meeting of the Austin audit and finance committee, the Austin city council. Without objection, we are adjourned. And we've [10:47:17 AM] we are adjourned. And we've adjourned at 10:47 A.M. Thanks, everybody.