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Plaza Del Sol Building

The Plaza del Sol Building houses the City of Albuquerque Planning Department as well as several other City departments and divisions.

Report good work performed by the Albuquerque Police.

Offer comments about the City of Albuquerque website.

Offer feedback to the Albuquerque City Council.

Police department strategic plans.

A PDF of Mental Health Response Advisory Committee for June 16, 2015.

The City has increased its use of staffing agency employees by 72.5 percent over the past five years, however, there is not one City department that has overall responsibility of monitoring and managing the use of this service. Each department is responsible for managing its own use, which has contributed to inconsistencies and violations of the contracts, request for bid (RFB) terms, and policies and procedures (P&P). The City has designed and implemented internal controls over obtaining, using, and managing staffing agency employees. However, these internal controls, which are detailed in the vendor contracts, RFB documentation, and P&P, are not consistently distributed and communicated to the department personnel in charge of obtaining, using, and managing staffing agency employees. This has caused many departments to be unaware of rules, regulations, and P&P regarding staffing agency employees, and consequently, has been the root cause of the exceptions. The current contracts the City has for staffing agency employee services are overdue to be rebid. The City can ensure that it is paying the most competitive prices, and offering departments the best staffing agency employee services by rebidding these contracts.

Formal policies and procedures pertaining to APD’s ammunition inventory are needed. Although APD has an extensive supply of ammunition, it has not established and implemented department-wide policies and procedures for purchasing, tracking, and managing ammunition inventory. Tracking the acquisition, storage, and distribution of inventory is critical to controlling cost, operational efficiency, and mission readiness. APD should reduce the number of locations with ammunition inventory to limit risk and increase accuracy of inventory tracking.

The Office of Internal Audit (OIA) performed a follow-up of Special Audit No. 11-103, Citywide Database Security. The purpose of this follow-up is to report on the progress made by the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and the Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) of the Department of Finance and Administrative Services (DFAS) in addressing our findings and recommendations.

The Office of Internal Audit (OIA) conducted a Citywide performance audit of the use and management of staffing agency employees. The audit was included as part of OIA’s fiscal year (FY) 2015 audit plan.