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Policy committee signals support for audit of city data practices over housing development review
Summary
The council’s Policy Committee discussed two audit topics — the city’s data practices process and the housing development process — and indicated unanimous support for prioritizing a data practices review in the audit committee’s upcoming decision.
The St. Paul City Council Policy Committee heard competing proposals for the audit committee’s next review and signaled support for prioritizing a study of the city’s data practices process.
Audit committee staff member Nia Vang presented two candidate topics: (1) the data practices process, prompted by increased data request volume, recent court findings of noncompliance, and staff interest in improved procedures; and (2) revisiting a 2022 review of the housing development process to assess whether prior recommendations had been implemented and to examine departmental coordination for developers.
"The first is the data practices process, and the second is revisiting the housing development process," Vang said when introducing the two options. She noted the 2020 implementation of a data management tool under the city…
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