Okay.

My clock says 1 30, so we're starting.

I'm calling this meeting to order.

Good afternoon, and welcome to the community and economic development committee meeting.

I have something that I am supposed to read, so I'm going to.

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Councilmember Casey.

O'Keyhi.

Chair.

Ortiz.

President.

Here.

And Chair Foley.

Here.

Thank you.

Okay.

We don't have any work plan to review or consent calendar.

We just are moving to the reports of the committee.

And the first report is the City Manager's Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs.

Performant Measure Audit Measures Audit Report.

Joe Royce Anti.

Welcome.

Good afternoon, Joe Royce, City Auditor.

I'm here with Howad Heider for our audit of the Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs Performance Measures.

Also in the box is Jen Baker from the Office of Economic Development Cultural Affairs or OEDCA.

OEDCA reports performance information across multiple channels to communicate progress toward its economic development, cultural vitality, and workforce goals.

This includes the city's adopted operating budget and regular reporting to the City Council on its economic strategy work plan and updates for the growing our economy focused area.

In recent years, OEDCA has substantially revised its performance measurement framework in response to City Council direction and citywide performance management initiatives.

The objective of this audit was to assess the reliability, validity, and usefulness of OEDCA's performance measures.

OEDCA reports or the first finding or only finding is that OEDCA's performance measures can are generally useful and reliable, but some measures can be clearer and more meaningful.

OEDCA reports 39 performance metrics in the adopted operating budget across its services.

And these measures generally reflect ongoing work and align with goals in the economic strategy work plan and the growing our economy focus area.

We did find that while most performance measures in the operating budget are useful and reliable.

Also, some performance results in the operating budget reflect key results and goals in the two-year economic strategy work plan and should be reviewed to ensure they reflect longer-term goals and targets.

And lastly, OEDC has not fully or yet fully documented the methodologies behind its performance measures, both those tracked internally and those that rely on outside sources.

So we for this finding we recommend uh to improve their performance measures.

OEDCA should review select performance measures to enhance usefulness and clarity and determine whether measures reflect longer-term targets and goals, and to document methodologies for calculating performance measures, both internally and externally.

Overall, the report has five recommendations to approve the clarity, consistency, and long-term usefulness of OEDC's performance measures.

We want to thank OEDCA for their time and insight during the audit process.

I ask that you accept the report in cross-reference to the September 29th council meeting.

Happy to answer any questions, but first I'm going to turn it over to Jen Baker for the administration's response.

Thank you.

Thank you, City Auditor Royce.

Jen Baker, Director of the Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs.

And just as an orientation statement, I think our team was very pleased at the collaborative nature of the approach and the dialogue and really the effort in wanting to make sure that our measures and our metrics are indeed clearly defined and ones that can be followed year on end to create the right reflection of our work and our deliverables.

So thank you for a great process along the way.

Great.

Thank you for the presentation and for the city manager's approval or acceptance of all of those.

Do we have any members of the public who wish to speak?

Yes, Brian Darby.

Please make your way down to the podium.