City Auditor Search Process and Nominating Commission (26-379A)

Context: Committee on Finance has briefed this nominating process on 2026-01-26 and 2026-02-03, both listed in Draft status with no recorded action.

Recommended: Pull the City Charter provisions governing the City Auditor nominating commission's required milestones — two consecutive Committee on Finance briefings have produced no recorded vote or referral, which may trigger a procedural clock you can raise before a nominee reaches full Council. Once a name is forwarded, the window to challenge the process on procedural grounds closes.

Context: Two Committee on Finance briefings (2026-01-26, 2026-02-03) have kept commission composition off the public record while the same body reviewed a $16,837,803 revenue-foregone PFC lease for Good Homes Dallas.

Recommended: File a public records request now for the nominating commission's full membership list and professional affiliations — the same Committee on Finance agenda that briefed this search twice also carried a $16.8 million foregone-revenue Public Facility Corporation lease, exactly the kind of transaction the incoming auditor will be tasked to scrutinize, yet who sits on the commission remains undisclosed.

Context: Committee on Finance has briefed this nominating process twice (2026-01-26, 2026-02-03) without setting selection criteria, while the same agenda carried a $16,837,803 PFC lease illustrating the transaction type at stake.

Recommended: Contact Committee on Finance members now to get Public Facility Corporation oversight scope and independence standards formally on the record for the new City Auditor — the committee has already briefed a $16.8 million foregone-revenue PFC lease this session, a live example to anchor scope language before the nominating commission acts independently and forwards a name.