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City auditor finds Beautify SJ serves priority communities; recommends better data, translations and accessibility info
Summary
An audit of Beautify SJ neighborhood blight reduction programs found that equity‑priority neighborhoods received equal or higher shares of certain services but recommended improved disaggregated data, translation access and volunteer accessibility information.
City Auditor Joe Royce presented an audit of the Beautify SJ neighborhood blight reduction programs on Jan. 14 and recommended steps to improve the program’s equity monitoring and public access.
Royce said the audit assessed services including illegal dumping and graffiti removal, neighborhood beautification, litter pickups, volunteer events and grant programs. Using three equity lenses—the Healthy Places Index, the San Jose Equity Atlas and Metropolitan Transportation Commission…
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