Oakland
From the meeting · City Council, · 0:55
Were there consequences when projects overspent?
During the city auditor's report on how capital projects are managed, a member asks whether anything happened when projects went over budget without council approval, and whether the council could legislate consequences.
a councilmember, the city auditor's office and an official
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a councilmember Was there any consequence?
a councilmember And is there something built into our legislation or is that a legislative thing that this body can maybe have jurisdiction to take up?
the city auditor's office I can answer the second part more comfortably, which is, yeah, I think that
an official it could...
the city auditor's office Consequences or I guess struggling to find a synonym for that, but could be incorporated in policies and procedures and legislation.
the city auditor's office Were a lot of examples of exceptions, as we call in auditor parlance, in this audit report.
the city auditor's office So I I can't remember offhand, what happened in each of these cases.
an official But largely,
the city auditor's office there weren't necessarily the kinds of consequences, I think, that you're describing.
Where it's from
- City auditor's audit of capital project financial management Item S5.3: what happened
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- The full recording from here