Office of Audit and Evaluation Director

Office of Audit Services and Management Support MEMORANDUM To: Richard M. Howard, City Engineer From: Beryl H. Davis, CPA, CGFM, Director Office of Audit Services and Management Support Re: Follow-Up Review of Street Maintenance and Construction Audit (Report No. 08-11) Date: July 2, 2008 Attached is a summary of the status of recommendations as determined from our follow-up review of the Street Maintenance and Construction Audit (Report No. 07-14), issued July 6, 2007. Our review procedures consisted of a review of the status of the recommendations provided by the management of the Street Maintenance and Construction program (Streets) and inquiries of management. Our follow-up was made in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. The standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. Eight of the 17 recommendations in the original report were implemented, four were partially implemented, four are planned for implementation and one has not been implemented. Streets plans to fully implement the four partially implemented recommendations to use management summary, aging, backlog and priority reports, after the Technology Management Division (TMD) replaces Easy Streets software with a new application. Of the recommendations planned for implementation, one will be ...