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City auditor outlines automation, open-checkbook and school-audit plans
Summary
City Auditor Juan reviewed his office's mandate, staffing, internal audit activity and goals to automate audits, publish an 'open checkbook', and strengthen school purchasing controls; he provided preliminary FY26 metrics including budget totals and purchase-order volume.
The city auditor (referred to in the meeting as Juan) told the accounts committee his office conducts financial and performance audits, enforces internal controls, and coordinates school-finance oversight. "Our core responsibilities are, like, examine all accounts, books, and records reflecting financial activity," he said, summarizing the auditor's statutory mandate and professional standards his office follows.
The auditor gave preliminary FY26 figures: a combined general/enterprise budget of roughly $618.7 million, capital expenditures of about $34.4 million, and more than 23,000 purchase orders processed. He outlined modernization priorities — automate audit workflows with AI, deploy a fund-balance calculator to improve early free-cash estimates, expand grant monitoring via the Munis grant module, publish internal-audit findings and single audits online, and move to paperless purchase orders — and he committed to weekly public office hours at City Hall.
