Colton Audit Ignored

COLTON–After spending $65,000 for a management audit of city operations more than two years ago, city officials have buried it and its recommendations, refusing to release it to the public or even present its findings officially to the city council.
Moreover, the Sentinel has learned, in the last several months the city has embarked on a series of moves that run directly counter to the recommendations contained in the audit.
City officials were unable to explain why, precisely, the audit was undertaken, although in 2007 a report by then-city manager Daryl Parrish indicated the audit would look into the staffing levels of the city’s managerial ranks to determine if a reassignment or reorganization of duties was in order or whether City Hall needed to beef up its administration to accommodate anticipated future business and population growth within the city.
After the company recruited to do the audit, Citygate Associates LLC, performed its initial surveys of city operations and growth trends, updates on its findings were provided to Parrish, who filed them and gave verbal briefings to the city council on what ground the firm had covered. But no finished audit or its report was ever presented to the council, which would have made the document a public one, subject to release to the public.
That may have been, the Sentinel has learned, because Citygate made several recom… Read more