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The Mesa City Council met in a study session on October 6, 2026, with all members present except Mr. Heredio. Key topics included a presentation of the proposed audit plan for fiscal year 2027 by City Auditor Joe Lizano, discussion of routine agenda items, and recognition of board and committee minutes. Council members also shared updates on community events and meetings.
Council members shared updates:
Welcome to the Mesa City Council study session for October 5th, 2026. Mr. Heredio will be missing him. Otherwise, all other council members are present. As usual, council item one is a review of the council for tonight's agenda. You have anything or questions you want to ask staff. Do you want to ask about the fire truck again? Yeah, I think I think Mr. Mr. Queedens was out of town and tried to answer, but anyway, you don't have to answer it on the fire apparatus. I just have Heartburn giving Phoenix 186,000, that's all. Um other than that, council, we have some ordinances. Uh Park North is on for action as well as adoption of notice to to intention to adjust utility rates will be uh on to is off consent now. So I think that's it. Is there any other any questions, council? All right. Okay, hearing none. Item two A is a presentation of discussion on the proposed audit plan. Joe, you're by yourself, you get to do this. Always. Great, thank you. All right. Mayor and council. I'm Joe Lizano, the city auditor. And I'm gonna go over our audit plan for uh fiscal year 2027. Um a little bit of an agenda. We're gonna go over the current work in progress, the audits we planned for for fiscal year 2027, the follow-up reviews that are due this year, and then the other activities that our office performs. So the current currently we have these audits in progress. So we're working on a citywide take-home vehicles audit, um, citywide special pay programs, the ASU facility at Mesa City Center uh through the engineering department, arts and cultures uh revenues uh at the at the arts center. The police department's mental health support team, police department off-duty employment program, and the city clerk's um public records request that is actually more of a citywide audit, but it kind of gets administered through the city clerk's office. For this year, we have the following audits planned. Um first is the water resources annual ordering and reporting, and that's to review the processes and procedures in place for the water resources department, annual water ordering and reporting process to ensure compliance with applicable policies, statutes, and any other requirements in it and identify any potential efficiencies in the water ordering and reporting process. Uh facilities management with their work order process, and we're gonna evaluate the effectiveness of their work order management process includes assessing the life cycle of work orders from start to finish, ensuring proper documentation, timely completion, and compliance with city department, city and department policies and procedures. And then code compliance, the case management. We're gonna look at whether effective controls are in place to ensure case management activities are performed consistently in accordance with applicable policy statutes, ordinance, and any other requirements.