The New Westminster school district's controversial business company, which oversees a school in China, has postponed its annual general meeting to ensure last year's audited financial statements are completed.
The meeting was scheduled for Sept. 23 at 5 p.m. but has been tentatively moved forward a week to Sept. 30.
Chief executive officer Brent Atkinson said the meeting was changed because the auditors didn't start reviewing the business company's financial statements until three weeks later than they have in previous years. As a result, the auditors asked to
have the deadline extended.
"I believe, tentatively, we're pushing them to try and do it by Sept. 30," Atkinson said. "I tried to make it a permanent date, but the problem is they're doing the school board audit and our audit at the same time, right, and they have to complete them both."
The meeting comes at a time when the district's business company faces an uncertain future in the face of provincial government rules introduced earlier this year meant to tighten regulations around operating offshore schools.
