All 41 recommendations in the Deloitte report meant to help Amherstburg get its financial house in order are now met — and sooner than expected.
The report made its way to council in August 2014 in response to high profile financial concerns including high debt and low reserve levels.
Mayor Aldo DiCarlo says meeting the recommendations should go a long way to restoring confidence in the town's management abilities.
"There wasn't a lot of transparency or accountability," says DiCarlo. "Now with everything in place the way it is there really shouldn't be any questions from the residents and if there are then great, we can deal with them specifically now."
Deloitte outlined a 24 month timeline for the recommendations to be addressed. The town fulfilled the task in 17 months.
The final Deloitte recommendations that were met touched on performance management and clarity of financial reporting to council.
DiCarlo stresses the town isn't satisfied with just having met the recommendations.
"We're not done. That's how I would suggest we got into the situation in the first place," says DiCarlo. "It's easy to have policies and bylaws, but more importantly you have to keep up and make sure they're still relevant."
There are still six proposed polices as well as the town's strategic financial plan that require final council approval. However, the strategic financial plan's goals, principals and forecasts have already been included into the town's 2016 budget which was approved by council at the beginning of the year.