Communications & Marketing Office: 2007 Citizen's Report

	Your Charter Officers City Manager City Attorney City Auditor Clerk of the Commission Equal Opportunity Director General Manager for Utilities
	City Auditor The City Auditor's Office works to promote honest, effective and fully accountable City government. This is accomplished by providing the public and the City Commission with timely, objective, accurate information about what City departments and programs are doing and how they could improve. By providing this information, the City Auditor's Office helps hold our government accountable for the stewardship of public resources and continually focuses on ensuring that City operations are utilizing limited resources effectively and efficiently to provide quality services to the citizens of Gainesville. 2007 Highlights Reviewed overtime expenditures for Gainesville Fire Rescue and Gainesville Police Department. Evaluated Gainesville Regional Utilities' Small Business Enterprise Program. Assessed the reliability and effectiveness of Public Works' performance measures for road maintenance activities. Worked with management to maximize the City's return on the sale of Brownfield Voluntary Cleanup Tax Credits, resulting in additional revenues of $70,000 in 2007 and $600,000 over the next few years.

City Auditor
The City Auditor's Office works to promote honest, effective and fully accountable City government. This is accomplished by providing the public and the City Commission with timely, objective, accurate information about what City departments and programs are doing and how they could improve. By providing this information, the City Auditor's Office helps hold our government accountable for the stewardship of public resources and continually focuses on ensuring that City operations are utilizing limited resources effectively and efficiently to provide quality services to the citizens of Gainesville.

2007 Highlights

Reviewed overtime expenditures for Gainesville Fire Rescue and Gainesville Police Department.
Evaluated Gainesville Regional Utilities' Small Business Enterprise Program.
Assessed the reliability and effectiveness of Public Works' performance measures for road maintenance activities.
Worked with management to maximize the City's return on the sale of Brownfield Voluntary Cleanup Tax Credits, resulting in additional revenues of $70,000 in 2007 and $600,000 over the next few years.