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Implementation of audit recommendations by NYCHA
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Council Member Banks asks about NYCHA's response to audit recommendations and their implementation. Deputy Comptroller Hayes-Chaffe discusses NYCHA's varying levels of agreement with different audit findings.
- NYCHA disagreed with some findings from the evictions evaluation
- They agreed to implement most recommendations from the contractor audit
- The Comptroller's office plans to follow up on implementation status in the coming months
Chris Banks
3:44:34
Have you observed or faced resistance from NYCHA officials with regard to implementing transparency measures recommended by your office?
Maura Hayes-Chaffe
3:44:44
I don't know if I would call it resistance.
3:44:48
I think, as NYCHA stated themselves, they do not believe that the results of our evictions evaluation are correct.
3:44:56
They do not they have not committed so far to validating the results that they received from property managers.
3:45:03
And if you look at section of the report, you'll see that NYCHA committed to implementing four or five and re disagreed with a series of others.
3:45:17
Contractor audit, they agreed overwhelmingly to implement.
3:45:21
They agreed to implement, I think, 12 of 14 or 10 of 14 10 of 12.
3:45:25
So it's a much higher rate of agreement.
Chris Banks
3:45:28
Alright.
3:45:29
To your knowledge, has NYCHA implemented implemented any of the 14 recommendations from your December 24 audit report on evictions?
3:45:38
And if NYCHA does not implement all 14 recommendations, are you concerned that problems revealed by the audit such as the inaccurate reporting from the PAC managers will persist?
Maura Hayes-Chaffe
3:45:52
We don't know the current status.
3:45:54
Our practice is to follow-up roughly three to four months after the audit is issued.
3:45:59
So our first follow-up should be coming up now.
3:46:01
Okay.
3:46:02
But yes, we share concerns.
3:46:04
When we write recommendations, they are things that we are asking the auditee to consider, and we hope that they will implement.