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Audit Bureau summarizes Q4 audits; PUC reports no findings in BLA review but has open recommendations
Summary
SFPUC’s Audit Bureau presented its quarterly audit and performance review for the fourth quarter ending June 30, 2025. The presentation noted 23 audits completed in the quarter, highlighted a Board of Supervisors Budget and Legislative Analyst (BLA) performance audit that found no PUC findings but issued recommendations to several city oversight
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Audit Bureau presented its quarterly audit and performance review for the fourth quarter ending June 30, 2025. Nancy Hamm, Chief Financial Officer and Assistant General Manager of Business Services, delivered the presentation on behalf of Audit Director Irela Blackwood.
Highlights from the report
- Audits completed and in progress: SFPUC reported 23 completed audits for the quarter (16 financial audits and 7 performance audits) and 14 audits in progress. The Audit Bureau listed 6 audits scheduled for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, principally financial and year‑end related matters.
- Spotlight: the Audit Bureau highlighted the Board of Supervisors Budget and Legislative Analyst (BLA) citywide audit of interdepartmental services work orders and performance management. That review covered fiscal years 2018–2023 and found control deficiencies and inefficiencies across citywide work orders, including planning and oversight, tracking of expenditures and carryforwards, and performance monitoring. Importantly, the BLA made 24 recommendations to city departments but identified no findings against the SFPUC specifically.
- SFPUC internal status: As of June 30, the PUC had 16 open audit recommendations across two open audits; Audit Bureau staff reported active monitoring and plans to close recommendations on a six-month cadence.
- Upcoming audits: The bureau listed upcoming work including revenue lease audits, bond audits, single audit work and LBE compliance checks and the annual warehouse physical inventory counts.
Public comment and response
A public speaker criticized the commission’s responsiveness to audit reports and urged longer public‑comment time; commissioners and staff reiterated commitment to implement audit recommendations and to monitor open items.
What’s next
Audit Bureau staff said they will continue to track and implement audit recommendations and return to the commission with updates. Commissioners offered no substantive changes to the presented schedule and accepted the report for review.
