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City staff map dozens of required reports; staff propose tighter tracking and committee review
Summary
Council staff and administration reviewed roughly 108 required reports across boards, commissions and departments and proposed centralizing publication, aligning effort with council utility, and deeper committee review of high-effort finance reports.
Maria Garnett, a council policy analyst, presented the second phase of a “Report of Reports” project to the Governmental Operations Standing Committee, summarizing the team’s inventory of required submissions and proposing next steps to improve tracking and usefulness.
Garnett told the committee staff identified about 81 reports required of boards, commissions and affiliate organizations and about 27 reports required from city departments; the latter number rose by two from the project’s first phase. “Most reports that…
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