Nova Scotia’s Housing Department says a brand new coverage will tackle problems with conflicts of curiosity highlighted in a current auditor basic’s report.
The provincial public accounts committee met right this moment to debate auditor basic Kim Adair’s Jan. 17 report, which discovered quite a few incidents of battle of curiosity throughout the former Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority.
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The report says the director who oversaw the most important housing authority within the province, liable for greater than 4,000 housing models in 90 properties within the Halifax and Hants County areas, had conflicts of curiosity that weren’t disclosed.
The authority, which was dissolved final yr and amalgamated right into a provincial housing company, in 2020 awarded nearly $1 million in contracts to a safety firm that had ties to the authority’s director.
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Pam Menchenton, the chief director of shopper companies for provincial public housing, says a brand new battle of curiosity coverage for provincial housing will tackle gaps that beforehand existed.
She says earlier coverage “may not have been applied consistently,” and the brand new model establishes clear pointers for figuring out and reporting potential conflicts of curiosity.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Jan. 25, 2023.
