Report 2018-110 Recommendation 12 Responses

Report 2018-110: City of Lincoln: Financial Mismanagement, Insufficient Accountability, and Lax Oversight Threaten the City's Stability (Release Date: March 2019)

Recommendation #12 To: Lincoln, City of

To help ensure that the city manager fully informs the city council of all relevant information before the council approves the annual budget, the city should specify by July 2019 the supporting information that it expects staff to provide with the proposed budget. Lincoln should then update its duty statements to require the city manager and department directors to provide the city council with this information as part of the city's budget process.

60-Day Agency Response

The City Council adopted a new Budget Policy on April 23, 2019. The Budget Policy identifies the data and information required by City Council for the budget. The City Manager's job description requires the development and implementation of all City Council Policy and therefore, does not require further modification.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2018-110

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.