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Controller outlines City Services Auditor priorities including MTA enforcement, payroll and bond reviews
Summary
The Controller’s City Services Auditor reviewed planned work for fiscal 2011–12: a rolling performance audit of MTA enforcement, cash-collection and payroll audits, and several bond/capital-program reviews; the Board welcomed the increased scope.
Peg Stevenson and Tanya Leitezhu of the Controller’s Office presented the City Services Auditor work plan, describing its charter mandate (Appendix F) and priorities. The office is focusing on performance and internal-audit work for large city agencies and capital programs and intends to publish a formal work plan on the controller’s website.
Key planned audits include: a rolling performance audit of divisions within the Municipal Transportation Agency (next: enforcement division), a program to identify and audit high-risk cash collection points across departments, an expanded payroll-audit initiative, and capital/bond oversight for several major bond programs including the Hospital rebuild and PUC water system projects. The office also noted ongoing work assisting the Department of Public Health on primary-care/mental-health integration and substance-abuse spending evaluations.
Supervisors responded positively to the comprehensiveness of the proposed work and emphasized follow-up on completed audits to ensure departments implement recommendations. Public commenters supported increased audits of city services and urged attention to recent large appropriations.
