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Reporting and public information from monitorships
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Council Member Brewer inquires about the reporting process and public information resulting from monitorships. Commissioner Strauber explains the regular reporting process and plans for public disclosure.
- DOI receives regular reports and has regular meetings with monitors
- Monitors escalate red flags identified during invoice reviews and site visits
- DOI plans to produce a public report at the conclusion of the monitorship
- The public report will explain the work done, findings, and recommendations for future crisis situations
- KPMG has flagged issues such as spoiled food during site visits
Jocelyn E. Strauber
1:17:37
Obviously, to the extent that we need that there are fewer funds being spent in that way going forward, we'd be able, you know, we'd be able to adjust And,
Gale Brewer
1:17:47
you know, we it's good that they're doing it.
1:17:49
And then you get regular reports, obviously.
Jocelyn E. Strauber
1:17:53
We get regular reports.
1:17:54
We have regular meetings.
1:17:56
They escalate to us, you know, red flags that they identify when they're looking at invoices, when they're doing site visits.
1:18:02
We are regularly in contact with them, and that is a good model of our sharing out with other city agencies problems that KPMG finds.
Gale Brewer
1:18:11
And then when it's over, is there a public report?
1:18:14
Because I know you say correctly that an investigate this isn't really an investigation.
1:18:18
It's like an ongoing
Jocelyn E. Strauber
1:18:21
monitorship.
1:18:21
But
Gale Brewer
1:18:22
So how does how does the monitorship get concluded with public information?
Jocelyn E. Strauber
1:18:28
Right.
1:18:28
Our our plan is to produce a public report at the conclusion of the monitorship that explains the work that KPMG did and the findings and recommendations that we have for sort of future kind of crisis situations where the city has to pull together, you know, a significant number of vendors to serve a need in in short order, is certainly how the asylum seeker funding process started.
Gale Brewer
1:18:52
Okay.
1:18:53
It's something to think about for the future because in our cases, of course, we have tons of hearings on these contracts.
1:18:59
And it's more mundane, like the food is rotten and it gets thrown out.
1:19:03
And that may not be a budget issue in the interim, you know, like, okay, interim, you know, like, okay, the food is being delivered.
1:19:10
It's just not being eaten because nobody wants to eat it.
1:19:13
So that's a different kind of oversight perhaps because it's not maybe you're getting your money's worth, but it's not, well spent, shall we say.
Jocelyn E. Strauber
1:19:23
Those are those are issues that KPMG flagged in connection with their site visits too, and particularly food that was spoiled, things like that.
Gale Brewer
1:19:30
Okay.