Item up for Public Comment, are there any members of the public that would like to make Public Comment on this item . Please come forward. You will have two. Sir. Excuse me. Miss jackson could you come forward, please . Thank you very much. Dr. Jackson again. And you know i came before you, two years ago, and i think that the problems that you all are having, with the different departments is because of the fact that i mentioned to you San Francisco is the only city that did not have a state, federal certificated Compliance Officer. No one in this city is complying to anything. And that needs to be checked out. Why is it, that the city has been getting away with this, for quite some time, so you are not going to get no answers, they are going to come with the excuses and they are still going to be spending money that you dont need to be spending because you dont know where it went, and so i would just like somebody, to find out why is it that this is continued to be happening in this c
Committee report. Without objection, this item is moved forward with a positive recommendation. Could you call the next item is hearing to receive an update from the City Services auditor on the status of audit recommendations. Okay, director of audits. Miss tanya levagu, am i saying that right. Yes, maam. And thank you for being here today, again. And good morning, the share and supervisors tang and chiu, i am the director of city audits for the Controllers Office and today kat is with me and she is an associate audit or in my office and i am here today to present our offices first annual report on recommendations that the departments still have not implemented more than two years after they were issued. This is a new step that we have added to our process for following up on the recommendations that we have issued. And as a reminder, the benefit from the audit work is not only in its findings and recommendations, but in the actual implementation of the corrective actions, by conducti
There were a lot of desegregated activities there, now formulating a much better organizational structure around these types of processes. And Human Resources have two outstanding recommendations related to negotiating specific issues of compensation, with the firefighters, labor union. And these recommendations come from cfas audit of the Fire Departments payroll, processes. And however, they were directed to dhr because dhr initiates and confer with the unions, are the labor unions. And dhr, just closed their process of negotiating 29 labor agreements and now that task is completed they will set up a meeting this month for a meet and confer with the appropriate labor union on this issue. And how long is that going to take . Because it has been a few years, and the concern that i have is that the city is always, and is already issued out millions of dollars for an official pay outs, and i am really concerned, about allowing this practice to continue in the audit took place several yea
Organizational structure around these types of processes. And Human Resources have two outstanding recommendations related to negotiating specific issues of compensation, with the firefighters, labor union. And these recommendations come from cfas audit of the Fire Departments payroll, processes. And however, they were directed to dhr because dhr initiates and confer with the unions, are the labor unions. And dhr, just closed their process of negotiating 29 labor agreements and now that task is completed they will set up a meeting this month for a meet and confer with the appropriate labor union on this issue. And how long is that going to take . Because it has been a few years, and the concern that i have is that the city is always, and is already issued out millions of dollars for an official pay outs, and i am really concerned, about allowing this practice to continue in the audit took place several years ago. Yes. And it was supposed to be a change and so how is this even possible
Our fire department, and dhr. Okay. And refresh my memory on this particular audit, because there is a reason why the finding is there and it probably is directly, what, the labor contract is saying, and policy. Yes. And i will get back with you. And the thing that i know that, there have been a lot of recommendations and there have been a lot of changes, and we will continue to have problems and we will continue as we audit the different departments to have specific requests that we have, but, there should not be a case, where they are allowed to not resolve a particular issue for more than two years. And so, i think that at this point, my goal is to try and close these out, or bring those particular departments before this committee, and hold them accountable, and potentially withhold their ability to actually, you know, pay out in some of these instances, so that this practice, of being able to circumvent the system that the money that we are issuing to the departments is not abused