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Audit process improvements and staffing considerations
2:39:33
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Council Member Lincoln Restler inquires about the allocation of new staff to support and streamline audit operations. Amanda Melillo explains the CFB's approach to improving the audit process, focusing on process improvements rather than simply adding more auditors.
- The Strategy, Products, and Innovation division and tech team are meant to support audit operations indirectly
- CFB is looking at the audit process itself rather than just adding more staff
- New tools are being developed to streamline operations on the back end
Lincoln Restler
2:39:33
Okay.
2:39:34
So as you can imagine, you have a group of people who have been through the campaign finance system and the auditing process, and I think have been pleased that executive director Ryan has made improving and streamlining the audit process a priority since joining the CFB.
2:39:53
But are any of those 45 staff going to support audit operations and to streamline those efforts further?
2:40:11
Okay.
Amanda Melillo
2:40:00
So I'll say that many of those staff are supporting audit operations.
2:40:04
I would hope that the entire strategy products and innovation division and tech team are meant to support audit operations.
2:40:11
One of the things we took a look at this year was really our head count.
2:40:17
What we've tried in the past is adding more auditors.
2:40:19
And I think a lot of times we have found this and we have also read about how this is true in other government agencies with processes like ours.
2:40:28
Adding more staff does not necessarily speed a process.
2:40:32
Sometimes you just have to look at the process.
2:40:35
So that is really what I have been partnering with our audit division in doing is looking at our process, looking at what are the improvements that we can make at the same time that we are looking to build new tools to help to streamline these things on the back end to help our staff who are
Farah N. Louis
2:40:50
here.
2:40:51
Okay.