Austin City Council unanimously approved a ordinance on Thursday, directing the city auditor to establish a recurring program of comprehensive efficiency assessments for all city departments. In other words, a regular internal audit.
The ordinance states: “The city auditor shall initiate and oversee a program of recurring comprehensive efficiency assessments designed to address cost effective performance improvements of all other City departments on a repeating schedule with at least three years between assessment cycles.”
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said during Thursday’s regularly scheduled city council meeting, “It’s both a back to basics and a modernization of local government, and that’s really important because it arises out of a determination for us to safeguard public confidence.”…