Chattanooga City Council drudging up auditor again

Chattanooga City Council member Jack Benson.

Just weeks after voters overwhelmingly approved an independent city auditor position, Councilman Jack Benson said Tuesday it should be brought to voters once again.

This time in a different form.

“I think we made some mistakes that need to be corrected and adjusted,” he said.

The Chattanooga City Council will have a chance to vote on placing a second charter amendment on the ballot, three weeks after voters approved the first charter amendment creating the new independent office of the auditor.

Benson, and other critics, maintain the new independent auditor’s office has too much autonomy and it is almost impossible to dismiss that person from office.