Office of the City Auditor

Home | Performance | Services | Reports | Audit & Finance Committee | Employment | Outreach | Investigations | Awards | Links & Resources

Issued: July 2002

SUMMARY

The Water & Wastewater Utility (W/WW) has made important progress in each area that we reviewed. Based on our analysis of the five recommendations reviewed, we consider three recommendations to have been fully implemented:

• Establishment of a process for capturing information on all fixed and non-fixed asset tracking;
• Identification of Hansen System goals and objectives; and,
• Proper implementation of the Hansen System.

Our work on the two remaining recommendations indicates that they have been partially implemented.

• Monitoring of parts after they leave the central warehouse; and,
• Undertaking and implementing an equipment utilization study within the Field Operations Division.

In the status reports from management for fiscal years 2001 and 2002, W/WW acknowledged that the recommendation on equipment utilization studies had not been fully implemented.

However, our recommendation regarding the monitoring of parts leaving the warehouse was reported as implemented. While the process for tracking these parts has been set up, our review found that not all steps of the process are being correctly followed.

Click here to go to our audit request form to request a hard copy of this report (Report No. AU02202) or download the entire text of the Water/Wastewater Asset Management Audit Follow-Up audit (Size: 315 KB) in Adobe Acrobat. Click here to view original audit report issued in September 1998. You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view these files.

The City Of Austin is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable modifications and equal access to communications will be provided upon request. Please call (512) 974-2805 or Relay Texas #711.