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Internal audit finds procurement compliant but inefficient; council introduces purchasing-code amendments
Summary
An internal audit found Carlsbad's procurement contracts generally complied with law but identified inefficiencies and recommended raising the city manager's approval threshold (audit suggested $150,000); staff recommended raising it to $250,000, proposing code changes to reduce duplicate council approvals and a timeline for policy updates tied to a core-systems modernization project; council voted to introduce the ordinance.
Internal Audit Manager Tufik Tafshuri presented a procurement audit that found the city's sampled contracts complied with legal requirements but noted that internal controls, while effective, are sometimes cumbersome and that procurement procedures and the purchasing manual had not been updated since 2016.
Tafshuri recommended the council consider increasing the city manager's award authority from $100,000 (set in 2008) to at least $150,000 to reflect inflation and proposed…
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