Good afternoon, Mayor Lucas, Mayor Pro Tem Parkshaw, members of the City Council, Doug Jones, City Auditor's Office.

I'm here to present our annual audit plan for the upcoming fiscal year.

Sorry, could you move that microphone just a little bit closer to you?

Is that better?

I'll enunciate and project to the back of the room.

Yeah.

So you should have a copy of the annual plan in front of you, and I sent emails yesterday that had a link to the plan as well as the presentation slides.

City Auditors Office mission is based on our charter mandate to provide information to the mayor and city council on the work of city government.

Our annual audit plan focuses on audits that will provide information to decision makers and recommendations to improve city services, ensure careful use of tax dollars, and enhance public accountability and transparency.

Kansas City government has a nearly $2.3 billion budget, 20 departments, almost 7,500 employees, and a wide range of programs and activities.

Audits of this large, varied, and complex organization are selected in one of two ways.

The city council as a body may direct the city auditor to conduct an audit by passing a resolution.

The city auditor also has the authority and responsibility to initiate audits.

The city auditor's annual selection plan considers a variety of inputs such as operational, financial, and compliance risks, council goals and the citywide business plan, residence surveys, our previous audits, audits by auditors and other jurisdictions, and budget and performance information.

We also pay attention to a lot of things that are going on in city government and around the city.

We also asked the mayor, city council, and city management for their audit topic suggestions, concerns, and input.

And then since 2014, we've been asking the public for their audit suggestions.

Final audit selection takes into account factors such as timing, coverage across the organization, audit complexity, our resources, and staff knowledge, skills, and interests.

The result of the selection process is our annual audit selection plan or annual audit plan, and that is a public report.

We've been issuing that since 2014.

Our goal for fiscal year 2025 is to issue nine performance audits, the same number as our current fiscal year goal, which next week we will issue our ninth audit.

During fiscal year 2025, we plan to assess the board's compli city board's compliance with legislative requirements, look at controls for the PIAC project, eligibility and monitoring, review how safety complaints concerns and recommendations for corrective actions are addressed, evaluate projected or promised outcomes of TIFF projects, review the performance of the Healthy Homes program, assess how complaints to the city's hotline are being addressed, evaluate Kansas City Pet Partners' contract compliance or performance, look at how the Office of the Tenant Advocate is operating, and assess whether the police department has an early intervention system.

The first five audits on this list are currently in progress, and I want to note that three of the audits that we're doing this upcoming year were all based on public audit suggestions.

The annual audit plan, which outlines potential also outlines the potential audit objectives for each of these audits.

This is just a list of another 10 audits that we identified as potential future audit topics for audits that we could start conducting later in fiscal 2025 for issuance in fiscal year 2026.

The annual audit plan is a flexible and dynamic tool that can be revised based on city council directives, the city auditors' discretion, staffing changes, emerging issues, or unanticipated events.

I want to thank everyone, the mayor, council members, city management, and the public who gave us their audit suggestions or input throughout the year.

The public can find our annual audit plan for fiscal year 2025, more information about the city auditor's office or submit their audit suggestions by visiting KCMO.gov/slash city auditor.

We do collect audit suggestions throughout the year.

So keep sending those ideas to us.

An easy way to stay up to date with this is follow us on our Twitter or as it's known now, X account.

That's at KCMO City Auditor.

We also accept audit suggestions through our Twitter account.

That uh concludes my presentation.

Happy to answer any questions you may have about our uh plan for the upcoming year.

Thank you for the presentation.

Um can you go back to the slide that breaks down uh that gives the specifics of the audit?

Can you provide a little more insight on um the healthy homes program and specifically what that audit will consist of?

What we're looking at, just the initial potential objective for that was an audit, could evaluate how this program is operating and whether program goals are being made.

We are currently in the initial survey phase for this audit.

So we're doing planning work, we're talking to uh the health department, we're talking to other stakeholders, we're reviewing documents and other information and reports to identify what the objective for that audit would be.

So it's it's in that ballpark, but we haven't uh completely honed in on what the scope for the audit will be.

Okay, and then can you also elaborate on the office of the tenant advocate and the scope of that?

The scope for that one that audit could assess how that office is operating, uh compliance with requirements, or whether the office effectively or efficiently addresses complaints, and we haven't started that one at all.

That is just uh an audit that's going to be happening soon.

Uh it's one of the next audits that's up once we finish this uh current set of audits that we're working on.

Okay, thank you.

Any other questions?

Questions?

Okay, well, thank you for the oh, I'm sorry, Councilman Ray.

Um I probably should know the answer to this question, but is this is it closed?

Are you is this the list of audits you're doing in 2025, or is there a capacity to do additional audits?

Can you answer that?

These are the audits that we the nine audits are what we pick to do with the staffing that we have.

Uh as I said, this it's not set in stone.

Uh if there are changes that come about, uh something more important comes up, or if the council as a body decides, hey, there's another audit we would like you to do, Doug.

Here it is.

Let me know.

We can talk about that.

So we can make changes, it's not set in stone, but uh first five audits are in progress, and the sixth audit on the list, we're doing some very, very initial planning work.