Council to let Chick, Delgadillo fight

After months of study and debate to try to head off a confrontation between City Controller Laura Chick and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, the City Council decided Friday to let them battle it out.
Chick said she was "disheartened" by the council's decision to not ask voters to decide the matter and she feels:"no choice: but to contest the issue.
Delgadillo had objected to Chick;'s; effort to audit the workers compensation program and his hiring of private attorneys and she had threatened to go to court when the council intervened.
Now, she said, she will renew her effort to audit the program and stands ready to bring in her own attorneys to represent her and clarify the issue.
Irwin Chemerinsky, who headed the Elected Charter Reform Commission, agrees with Chick on her power to audit all programs in the city.

"I am disheartened that the City Council did not support letting the
voters clarify the powers of the City Controller to conduct performance
audits of hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funded programs..
Unfortunately I am left with no other alternative than to reinstate my
audit of the City Attorney's workers compensation program, which will
lead to this issue being settled by a court of law."