All right, good morning, everybody.

Guess we should get this show underway.

Welcome to the Wednesday, April 8th meeting of the audit committee.

Start with the roll call.

Looks like we have no council members up at this point.

Carly Schreiner is here.

Tom Hebrink and Ricardo, our committee members.

Lisa Byrne from IBA is here.

Tracy McGrainer from Mary's office, thank you.

And of course, can't forget Jack Stra committee consultant.

So welcome everybody.

Do we have any non-agenda public comment today?

See none.

Any requests for continuances from any of the members.

See none there, we'll go right into it.

See, we don't waste time at this committee.

We take care of business.

Since we've last met, we've issued two audit-related products.

One includes the public right-of-way maintenance audits will be heard later today.

In addition, we've also issued the third quarter hotline report for fiscal year two thousand fifteen, which will also be heard today.

This includes a citywide contract oversight audit.

We have an exit conference scheduled for tomorrow, excuse me, Thursday, April 9th.

In addition, we have our fire lifeguard services.

And we should be issuing that audit to the department this week for establishing the exit conference process.

Then finally, we're also beginning to write the real estate assets airport division audit.

In terms of audits in progress, we have several audits that are in the field work or beginning stages.

This includes the citywide other special funds audit, the annual mission-based fund audit for fiscal year 2014, the city's fiscal sustainability and financial condition, business approvement districts, neighborhood code compliance, and also beginning the San Diego Police Department property evidence room and inventory audit.

In addition, we have four audits that are on the work plan that have not commenced.

This includes the public utilities overhead rates audit, annual central storage audit for fiscal year 2015, and then Development Services Department's entitlements audit and also the General Services Fleet Services Audit.

Just to note the last two audits we've been asked by the administration that we can consider delaying the start of those audits, and which we agreed to later this summer.

In addition, also at least finally we'd like to bring to the committee's attention that the association of local government auditors has an annual competition where audit organizations submit reports to be judged.

I was informed that the audit that we submitted this year was selected as a top audit, which is the Environmental Services Department's waste reduction recycling program audit, which has got the top price, which makes five consecutive um awards that we won.

So the staff did a great job in that report.

Well, congratulations on the award, and I know your staff always does a wonderful job, and we enjoy all the reports that come before us are very professional, so it's no surprise to me that you guys are going to be getting the accolades that you deserve.

So thank you very much for the report.

Now we'll go on to item number two, which is in discussion agenda, report from the city auditor.

Um regarding public right-of-way maintenance activities.

Looking forward to this map.

Thank you, Chair Sherman.

Good morning, everyone.

Kyle Elser, Assistant City Auditor.

And we'd like to present to you our performance audit of the citywide public right-of-way maintenance.

Uh with me is the audit team that worked on this project, Annie Hunau and Luis Brisinho.

Um Matt Helm was the project manager for this audit, but unfortunately he couldn't be here today.

Uh before we begin, we'd like to thank uh all the departments provided information for this report, especially environmental services, public utilities, and transportation and stormwater department.

And we'd also like to thank Luth Research for assisting us with the survey for this audit.

So this audit was uh requested by Chair Sherman, and initially our um our review was focused on operational efficiency.

However, we quickly determined that the um the intake process for service requests was a major issue, and so we focused on that for this audit.

However, in the future, we do plan on doing additional audit work on um ways to improve operational efficiency for the public right-of-way maintenance.

Um now I'd like to turn it over to Luis, who will talk about uh background information, and Andy will walk you through the findings and recommendations.

Thank you.

Well, the City of San Diego's public right-of-way is essentially the space reserved for transportation, which includes streets, alleys, sidewalks, and bikeways.

Within the right-of-way, the city owns and maintains hundreds of thousands of assets that make up a large portion of the city's infrastructure.

For example, as noted in the table, the city is responsible for about 2800 miles of streets.

So you can imagine the number and variety of other right-of-way assets that go along with that.

Things like street lights, traffic signals, trees, water and sewer lines, and storm drains are all part of it.

The right-of-way and its related assets are a very important part of city life, and maintaining that infrastructure is essential to economic vitality, public safety, environmental health, and the everyday quality of life for residents and visitors.

Proper maintenance of assets in the right-of-way produces many benefits in these areas.

To achieve these benefits, the city conducts many different maintenance activities in the right-of-way.

The pictures on this slide highlight some of those activities, things like tree maintenance, sidewalk repair, and illegal dumping abatement.