FY2026 Audit Recommendation Follow-Up

At a glance

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What: the City Auditor's annual follow-up on whether the City has carried out recommendations from past audits and advisory assessments.
Where it stands: on 2026-10-13 the Policy and Services Committee voted 3-0 on the staff recommendation to accept the report.
Next: the Auditor's office keeps monitoring open items in future follow-up cycles.

83 recommendations (14 audits, four advisory assessments, about six years): 32 complete (38.5%), 32 in progress, 15 not started, four no longer relevant. About 77% are complete or under way.
Not started: IT risk management (three, awaiting a broader risk framework, expected in fiscal 2027), one ADA compliance item (a centralized request and grievance process, held up by staff capacity), five from the June 2026 public safety staffing and overtime audit, and five from the June 2026 utility reserves advisory project (still going to the Utilities Advisory Commission in November).
All recommendations from the procurement and purchasing card audits are complete, and most from the building permitting audit.

Councilmember Reckdahl asked about unencrypted local laptop drives (IT relies on remote wipe and says important files belong on backed-up network storage), the ADA request tracking item (complaints are still answered on time; the centralized tracker is a nice-to-have with no start date), the grant policy update, and wildfire line clearing and CalFire cost sharing (fire staff said it means joint fuel reduction, not a formal contract).
Vice Mayor Stone asked whether the not-started items show a pattern; the Auditor pointed to IT risk and said the two June 2026 items need time.
Chair Lythcott-Haims kept one public commenter to the topic.

About 25 minutes across 1 meeting (from transcript timestamps; approximate).

Meeting	Minutes
2026-10-13 - Policy & Services Committee Special Meeting	25

2026-10-13 - Policy & Services Committee Special Meeting - Auditor presented the follow-up results; committee questions on IT encryption, ADA tracking, grants and wildfire clearing; accepted 3-0.