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City auditor says Planning Department has not implemented prior equity recommendations; data cleanup expected this summer
Summary
A biannual follow-up audit found several prior recommendations for Baltimore’s Department of Planning and the Office of Equity and Civil Rights remain incomplete. City officials said a major data cleanup is underway and the city has identified funding to solicit a consultant to complete a citywide equity assessment.
City Auditor Josh Pash presented a biannual follow-up performance audit on the Department of Planning on March 5, saying multiple prior audit recommendations have not been implemented.
The audit found that several recommendations from a December 2022 report — including revisions to equity evaluation criteria for capital projects, tracking actual project locations and expenditures, and a citywide equity action plan — remain unfinished. “All findings and recommendations from the prior audit were not implemented due to the following reasons,” Pash told the Board, citing leadership turnover at the Office of Equity and Civil Rights (OECR) and competing agency priorities.
The audit team reported that about 40% of the capital improvement plan is not reported by community statistical…
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