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Restoration Projects and Green Streets: Bureau of Environmental Services continued progress on project monitoring and reporting
This is a two-year follow-up to our 2018 report, "Restoration Projects and Green Streets: Planning and evaluation needed to confirm success."
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Portland Building Construction Contract: City has taken steps to account for final costs
This is a one-year follow-up to the report, "Portland Building Construction Contract: Costs reviewed were compliant, although cost classifications required by contract and reconciliations need to start immediately."
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Police Overtime Update: Improvements made in reporting; policy changes in process
This is a one-year follow-up to our 2019 report, "Police Overtime: Management is lax despite high overtime use."
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City improved accountability and transparency of recreational cannabis tax
This is a one-year follow-up to our 2019 report, "Recreational Cannabis Tax: Greater transparency and accountability needed."
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Private Stormwater Management - At year two, slow progress on data management, but program evaluations are underway
This is a two-year follow-up to our 2018 report, "Private Stormwater Management: City reliance on property owners requires review of risks and results."
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Streets Improvement Projects - Bureau of Transportation has made significant progress on improving the assessment of neighborhood impact
This is a two-year follow-up on our 2018 report, "Streets Improvement Projects: Bureau of Transportation has an inclusive planning process, but should improve assessment of neighborhood impact."
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Transportation Bureau improved Fixing our Streets; program’s second iteration is more realistic
This is a one-year follow-up to our 2019 report, "Fixing Our Streets: Some accountability commitments not fulfilled."
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Portland Building: City takes steps to address transparency recommendations
This is a one-year follow-up to our 2019 report, "Portland Building Follow-Up: Greater public transparency needed about project costs, trade-offs, and missed equity requirement."
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Housing Bond - Housing Bureau improved communication, needs more time to reach intended populations
This is a one-year follow-up to our 2019 report, "Portland Housing Bond: Early implementation results mostly encouraging."
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Portland Parks Golf has made progress on all audit recommendations
This is a one-year follow-up to our 2019 report, "Portland Parks Golf: Changes needed to ensure long-term sustainability."
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Equity in Construction Contracting: Some goals achieved despite mismanagement, waste, and gamesmanship
Along with context and evidence, we make 16 recommendations in our audit report for improving the City’s contracting equity strategies. These include suggestions for better program design as well as measures to improve oversight, transparency, and accountability.
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Enhanced Services Districts: City provides little oversight of privately funded public services
Districts provide security and maintenance of public spaces, but without the level of transparency and accountability required for similar services managed by the City.
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Pandemic has slowed Regional Arts and Culture Council strategic planning
This is a two-year follow-up to our 2018 report, "Regional Arts and Culture Council: Clear City goals aligned with strong Arts Council strategy will improve arts and culture services."
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Groundwater: City identified risks, must develop a long-term plan to address them
Given the time and money spent on protecting Bull Run, this audit asked whether the Water Bureau is managing the groundwater resource to ensure it is available in times of emergency or scarcity.
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Cleanups of Homeless Camps: Improvements made to property handling
This is a one-year follow-up to our 2019 report, "Cleanups of Homeless Camps: Improved Communications and Data Needed."
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Fraud Hotline report: Procurement card misuse in the Parks Ranger Program
The Auditor’s Office found evidence of waste when investigating a tip about spending in the Park Ranger Program.
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2019 Fraud Hotline Annual Report
Confidential tips to the Auditor’s Fraud Hotline led to 13 investigations in 2019, three of which resulted in substantiated findings of waste or abuse of position.
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Office of Equity and Human Rights improved approach to accommodation requests
This is a three-year follow-up to our 2016 report, "Americans with Disabilities Act: Coordination gaps complicate City response."
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Fraud Hotline report: Police Bureau put money that could have been used for other City priorities at risk when it failed to remedy concerns about grant funds
The Police Bureau risked spending more than $400,000 in General Fund money instead of federal grant funds because it did not heed warnings that the Sex Crimes Unit was out of compliance with grant requirements.
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Transportation Bureau has implemented most audit recommendations for private for hire vehicles
This is a three-year follow-up to our 2016 report, "Transportation Network Companies and Taxicabs: Transportation Bureau needs to monitor service, not just safety."
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