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we want to make sure that your money is
used efficiently and effectively we make
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sure controls are in place to ensure
that operations are fair and consistent
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we safeguard the public's investment
endeavor well as the auditor we make
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sure that Denver operations are managed
efficiently and effectively if they're
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not we make recommendations to those
agencies as to how they can better
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manage and operate the programs the
recommendations can range from better
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governance of a program increasing
revenues reducing costs changing
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practices procedures to make sure that
things are operating as intended the
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mayor's office really through the
departments that we're auditing respond
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to those recommendations we also are
responsible for signing over 3,500 city
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contracts every year if I felt that a
contract was not in compliance with the
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law I could refuse to sign the contract
we also make recommendations that will
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influence policy such as audits that
have had state legislation passed as a
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result of Rocky Mountain Human Services
provides services to the intellectual
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and developmental disabled population of
Denver we conducted an audit we found
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that the services were not necessarily
being provided and we found that there
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were some inappropriate use of the
dollars Denver tax dollars it was
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surprising because you don't expect to
find the level of miss spending that we
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found that odd it was important because
it improved the oversight of Rocky
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Mountain Human Services spending of
taxpayer funds in their duties to
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provide services and case management for
individuals with intellectual
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developmental disabilities taxpayer
funding wasn't being spent on services
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for those individuals and with the
shortage of both federal and state
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funding it's important to make sure that
all those dollars that are set aside for
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that purpose are spent on that purpose
it gave rise to the need for the council
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to really look at the contract that
resulted in changes to the code
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governing that contract as we move into
2018 well we work with the council on
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the results of the audit to make sure
that there was better oversight at the
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Department of Human Services the council
actually funded an additional position
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you know that is designed to do
oversight and it made sure that there
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were specific services that we that
would be auditable in the future another
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audit where we worked with the City
Council was an audit where we looked at
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what parks were designated as parks and
what we're not it really came up with an
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inventory of parks as a result of that
audit the council went about an effort
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to really designate many more parks as
parks the reason that's important is
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that once a park is designated as a park
it is a park until the people of the
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City and County of Denver voted to not
be a park I think that audit assures
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that the parks will be parks well into
the future our parks are one of our
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greatest assets and we take a lot of
pride in seeing that more parks are now
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designated as parks we want to make sure
that Denver continues to be the vibrant
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city that it is that we have ample parks
and opportunities for recreation
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going well into the future well thanks
for your questions you can read all of
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our audits at www.recoverymonth.gov
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