Office of Audit and Evaluation Director

Office of Audit Services and Management Support MEMORANDUM To: Alan Oyler, Public Works Director From: Beryl H. Davis, Director, Audit Services and Management Support Re: Follow-Up of Public Works Department Project Management Audit (Report No. 06-08) Date: February 16, 2006 Attached is a summary of the status of recommendations as determined from our follow-up of the Public Works Department Project Management Audit (Report No. 05-15), issued February 16, 2005. Our procedures consisted of an assessment of management’s indicated status of the recommendations through staff inquiries and review of selected documentation. Our follow-up was made in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards, except that we did not perform substantial tests of evidence supporting all replies from the officials responsible for resolving audit findings and recommendations. Ten of the 22 recommendations in the original report were implemented, seven were partially implemented and five are planned for implementation. Recommendations Partially Implemented Staff is in the process of gathering data to complete our recommendation (#4) regarding identifying acceptable ranges of internal service charges. A mechanism to identify group deficits at an earlier stage has been developed and discussed with the project managers in response to our recommendation (#9) regarding instituting controls and tools to reduce the number of group ...