Audit Committee keeps risk attachments confidential

Summary#

Calgary’s Audit Committee carried a motion on September 10, 2026, about VIVO for Healthier Generations’ 2025 annual report. It received the report and presentation for the City’s record and kept two risk-management attachments confidential until a review by September 10, 2031.

  • The decision records information about VIVO’s governance, finances, risk management, performance and community impact.
  • Attachments 3 and 3.1—the risk-management report and risk matrix—remain confidential under the Access to Information Act sections cited in the motion.
  • This is a committee decision about a report. It does not approve new funding or change VIVO’s services.

What it means for you#

  • For the public: The report and presentation were received for the City’s record. The two risk-management attachments are not publicly available under this decision before their 2031 review.
  • For VIVO: The committee’s motion does not impose new duties on VIVO or change its funding or operations.
  • The motion carried 7–0. The materials show no further Council decision was required.

Money#

No cost information is in the available material.

  • The decision does not authorize spending or set a funding amount.

What is unclear#

  • The motion does not say what will be considered in the 2031 confidentiality review or what may become public after it.
  • The contents of the confidential risk report and risk matrix are not available in the supplied material.

Case for#

  • The committee had requested an annual report covering VIVO’s governance, finances, risk management and community impact. Receiving it for the record gives the committee information on those topics.
  • Keeping the risk-management attachments confidential may protect information the motion identifies as advice from officials or as harmful to the City’s economic or other interests.

Case against#

  • The public cannot assess the contents of the risk-management report and matrix from the available material; their confidentiality is set to be reviewed only in 2031.
  • The motion does not explain why each attachment needs to remain confidential until that review.

Votes

Audit Committee, item 7.4 (VIVO for Healthier Generations 2025 Annual Report, AC2026-0501): That with respect to Report AC2026-0501, the following be approved, after amendment: That Audit Committee: - Receive this report and presentation for the Corporate Record; and - Keep Attachments 3 and 3.1 confidential pursuant to Sections 29 (Advice from officials) and 30 (Disclosure harmful to economic and other interests of a public body) of the Access to Information Act, to be reviewed by 2031…

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