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Auditor General and consultants flag payroll controls problems, council schedules follow-up
Summary
The Office of the Auditor General and audit partner Stout presented a citywide payroll performance audit identifying 23 observations — including manual processes, unsupported transactions and analytic anomalies — and the Finance Committee voted to take the item up again for deeper review in three weeks.
The Detroit City Council Finance Committee heard a detailed presentation of a citywide payroll performance audit on an interim report covering July 2021 through June 2023, and members asked the administration for clearer documentation and next steps.
Auditor General Laura Goodspeed introduced the report and said the work is part of a larger citywide employee-audit project. Ray Roth, director at Stout, the audit partner, said the audit found 23 observations and recommendations focused on manual processes, analytical anomalies and unsupported transactions. "Only 30% of it is working the way it should," Roth said, describing staff comments that frontline teams spend significant time "cleaning up the system." He noted payroll accounts for roughly $1 billion of annual general fund expenditures and…
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