Beset by financial and other challenges, the village of Andrew, Alta., is asking the province for a municipal inspection.
The community, about 100 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, is home to about 400 people.
Since 2021, the village’s monetary transactions have not been properly recorded, making it difficult to balance the books. To make matters worse, the municipal auditor recently quit.
“We haven’t really caught much of a break,” Mayor Merwin Haight said in an interview.
“None of us on council were expecting these kind of issues.”
In March, council voted unanimously in favour of asking the provincial government to conduct a municipal inspection.
If approved, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs
