REPORT TO AUDIT COMMITTEE
SUBJECT
Title
Information Report on the Status of Harvey M. Rose Associates Audit Recommendations
Report
BACKGROUND
On July 25, 2016, the Santa Clara Stadium Authority Board (Board) retained the services of Harvey M. Rose Associates, LLC (Auditor) to perform an audit of Stadium operations to ensure compliance with the 2010 voter approved Measure J. The Board approved, on July 19, 2016, appointing a three-member Ad-Hoc Stadium Audit Committee (Committee)to oversee the work and progress of the audit.
On November 27, 2017, staff presented the following to the Committee: (1) standard audit recommendation tracking matrix listing the thirty-seven audit recommendations, (2) designation for the status of the recommendation (e.g., Complete, Partially Complete, or Not Implemented), and (3) action taken to date. This matrix continues to be used as a tool to track staff's progress and to be presented to the Committee at future meetings.
On March 19 and October 29, 2018, staff provided an update to the Committee on the progress towards implementing the thirty-seven audit recommendations.
On November 27, 2018, staff provided an update to the Board on the progress towards implementing the thirty-seven audit recommendations. Twenty-five, or 68%, of audit recommendations are complete, and the remaining twelve are "Partially Complete".
DISCUSSION
Since the release of the November 2018 status report to the Board, Stadium Authority staff continues to progress on the remaining Partially Complete audit recommendations included in the attached Harvey M Rose Audit Recommendations matrix. Since that time, several key staff have left the City, or are taking extended leaves, and there has been no capacity to complete an update of the report; however, staff anticipates bringing forward a full report regarding the status and progress of the audit recommendations in January 2020.
For your reference, the attached Harvey M. Rose Audit Recommendations matrix ...
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