MPD Audit Oversight Directives

At a glance

Based on human-uploaded captions, which may still contain errors in names and numbers.

What: three Public Health, Safety and Equity items pressing the Minneapolis Police Department on City Auditor findings. Item 23 asks for an update on four unresolved corrective action plans from the off-duty work audit. Item 24 does the same for the fleet management audit. Item 25 asks the Audit Committee to request an independent audit of police overtime management controls and use. All three were authored by Council Member Chavez with others.
Where it stands: all approved on October 15. Item 23 passed with 11 ayes (Council Member Rainville absent); items 24 and 25, taken together, passed with 11 ayes.
Next: MPD updates on the corrective action plans; an overtime audit request goes to the Audit Committee.

Four issues, three high risk: manual radio sign-on and paper records, no limit enforcement over 60 hours a week, officers choosing their own supervisors, cash payments, no annual approval of secondary employers, no compliance monitoring, and inconsistent logging of squad car use.
A June 22, 2026 monitoring report listed all four plans as unresolved, the oldest by more than six years.
Council Member Wonsley said about $2 million in fees that could be charged is not being collected despite funding provided last budget cycle, and thanked the City Attorney's Office for a legal memo given the day before on regaining authority over off-duty work; she mentioned a later closed session on the subject.
Council Member Whiting, Council Member Vetaw and Council Member Chowdhury asked to be added as co-authors. Council Member Palmisano said her earlier interest began after a fatal shooting involving an officer who had worked an eight-hour off-duty shift.

Audit issued December 2, 2024 with 11 risks (seven high): about 250 crash investigations opened, outdated fleet policies, GPS tracking on only about 220 of more than 400 vehicles, no verified driver license checks, fuel card reconciliation gaps, 105 take-home vehicles without documented approval.
Corrective action target dates ran from January 31 to December 31, 2025; the June 2026 monitoring report lists them unresolved.

Council Member Chavez said police overtime exceeds its budget every year and that MPD officials admitted on September 28, 2026 that it has been mismanaged. Council Member Chowdhury was added as a co-author.

Council President Payne said the audit committee has a new dashboard of every open audit action going back to 2019, and tied the directives to the subpoena-authority request.

About 17 minutes across 1 meeting (from transcript timestamps; approximate).

Meeting	Minutes
2026-10-15 - City Council	17

2026-10-13 - Committee of the Whole - Council Member Chavez reported items 23 to 25 (off-duty work and fleet audit directives and an overtime audit request); referred to again in the subpoena debate.
2026-10-15 - City Council - all three items approved with 11 ayes; co-authors added.
2026-09-29 - Committee of the Whole - the 2025 police spending report was referred to the October 5 Budget Committee (6-3); Council Member Chavez said he hopes to request an independent audit of police overtime controls.
2026-10-26 - Budget Committee - the response to the legislative directive on the police department's 2025 spending was filed, closing that file (from auto-captions).

Marked agenda: off-duty work audit and fleet management audit directives and the overtime audit request adopted.