The City Council held a work session on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at 23:28 UTC. The meeting included presentations on internal audit reports and a comprehensive update on the city's water resources, featuring speakers from the City Auditor's Office, Central Arizona Project (CAP), Epcor, and the City of Surprise Water Utility. No votes were taken on the agenda items, and the session concluded with a motion to adjourn.
All right, good afternoon, everyone. I had to call this regular city council work session to order on Tuesday, April 7th at 2026. Madam Kirk, please call the roll. Mayor Sarder. Present. Vice Mayor Greenberg. Here. Councilman Haney. Here. Councilman Beffy. Here. Councilman Milton. Present. Councilman Hastings. Here. Councilman Jed. Here. Thank you, Mayor. We have quorum. Thank you. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Item one presentation and discussion pertaining to internal audit reports approved by the City of Surprise Audit Committee. I'm with the City Auditor Department. We're here to present the audits that we've completed over the past year that we have presented to the audit committee, and they've been approved. Within those five audit reports, we've identified twenty-six audit recommendations to departments in the city. The second category was compliance that has to do with complying with both external laws and regulations as well as internal city policies and procedures. We did identify some instances of non-compliance with the city policies. These were identified in areas like closing out permits in a timely manner, fees charged to facility use, and payroll. The third category we identified recommendations within our monitoring. This is part of the internal control system where management would evaluate processes to ensure that the internal controls are working and that they're operating effectively and they're achieving their objectives. We identified some needs for additional management involvement over the monitoring, including reconciliation and verification of data. IT covers general controls, access management, data integrity, and system change management. Recommendations we identified included improving the systems with some updates as well as ensuring the system access is being reviewed periodically. Of the 26 recommendations that were identified, 20 of these have already been fully implemented by the departments. One has been partially implemented, and then five of them are currently in the process of implementing the recommendations. All recommendations were concurred with by the departments. So that is our summary. Is there any questions or comments? Council. Just as the categories that we identified, every department's a little bit different. And so the recommendations were specific to the departments, but I wouldn't say that there was an overall trend of an issue of noncompliance somewhere. Okay. All right. Seeing no questions from council. Thank you for your presentation. Okay, thank you. Madam Clerk, please read item number three. Item three, presentation and discussion regarding an update on the city's water resources. Good evening, Mr. Boule.