The St.

Paul City Council added committee to order.

Roll call, please.

CM Coleman.

Here.

CM Johnson.

Here.

Committee member Dilworth.

Here.

Committee member Lostner.

Here.

Committee member McVay.

Committee member Donnelly.

Here.

Chair Naker?

Here.

All right.

Uh, welcome everyone to our June audit committee meeting.

Happy summer.

Um, we have a packed agenda today.

We have two items.

One is the um semi-final report from our last audit committee, uh, pending our thoughts and potential revisions.

And then uh we have we're moving straight into topic review for our next topic.

So we just never never take a moment's pause here at audit committee.

So uh we'll welcome back Dr.

Britt to take us away.

And like we were just saying, I think we're gonna try to get 30 minutes, 30 minutes if we can.

Um, so we'll see what we can do.

All right, sounds good.

Fantastic.

Uh well, thanks, everybody.

Uh, and appreciate your patience with us as it relates to our timeline.

Um, so I have a couple of intentions today.

I'm gonna do the sort of walkthrough of the presentation that you had attached in the agenda.

Um, uh, I'm happy to take questions as part of the presentation, happy to take broader questions.

Um, and then I'm just gonna invite you to continue, oops, sorry, uh, continue that feedback process, right?

So written feedback that you want to offer um through Nia to us.

We'll continue to take that.

Um, Mia has invited us today to have some specific conversations with her and with Greg and with Nicole and with some of the sort of city attorney um team, uh, so that we can get some additional feedback as it relates to the report.

So we're still striving for a June thirty final version, but I think if we need to push that because we're still receiving some feedback to you all, if you're like, you know what, I can't make the 19th, but I can make the, you know, insert date that's between the 19th and the 30th, we'll continue to take that feedback and do that final full pass to make sure what you get is the final edited version of what we've got available.

And as you know, since we're in long-term relationship with each other, we are here and around.

So happy to continue to do additional work that you might need.

So, maybe I'll just open by saying a giant thank you to Nia, as always, and a giant thank you to Greg, who spent a lot of time with us walking through the GovQA system, spent a lot of time with us back and forth as it relates to folks that we might survey, um, did a lot of back and forth other as it relates to um just city rules about getting surveys inside the walls of the city system.

So um, so I think just want to say an incredible thank you.

You all are fantastic team for us to work with.

So, uh, so I'm gonna go ahead and get started, but I will say, you know, pause me along the way as we are as we are making our way through this.

All right, so we're gonna talk a little bit about background and purpose.

Just a quick reminder, those research questions, the methods, so the kinds of things that we did to amass all of the pieces and parts for this.

We'll talk a little bit about that GovQ8 platform itself, some of the things that we know from taking a look at that platform and taking a look at that data.

We're gonna talk a little bit about those conversations with the staff, conversations with peer jurisdictions, and I'll say sort of other folks, League of Minnesota Cities, Office of the State Auditor, the Data Practices Office.

We'll talk a little bit about the data we have from the surveys that we did of department leads and of portal users, kind of the key findings and recommendations that we have, and then just invite discussion.

And I think I'll close by saying, as always, we look to the audit committee to tune and pull up recommendations, drop recommendations down, do that kind of stuff.

You'll saw we had a pretty light executive summary with a set of kind of eight major recommendations in the in kind of the back of the report.

But again, look to you all to say, move this around, adjust this.

We'd like to see this here.

So really sort of looking for your for your directions once you're really setting the mark for what you expect the broader city team is going to do as a as sort of a response to this.

So you all know this.

We were taking a look at that public data request process.

We really had three kind of big questions.

We had lots of sub-specific questions, but kind of the three overarching guiding questions.