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Committee delays transfer of policy, research and oversight staff from city auditor to city clerk
Summary
A Minneapolis Committee of the Whole heard a proposal to move policy, research and oversight functions from the city auditor’s office to the city clerk’s office, then voted 10–3 to continue the ordinance to April 29 to allow more briefings and deliberation.
City Clerk Casey Carl presented an ordinance March 25 to transfer the Policy, Research and Oversight (PAR&O) and Oversight & Evaluation divisions from the Office of the City Auditor to the Office of the City Clerk.
Carl said the transfer would place those teams under the clerk’s “professional, nonpartisan” council staff to avoid creating a conflict with the auditor’s charter-mandated independence. The ordinance would move 10 FTEs (five positions in Policy and Research and five in Oversight and Evaluation) into a new Policy, Research and Oversight division reporting to a chief assistant city clerk.
The proposal followed a written legal analysis from the city…
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