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1. OFFICE
OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL - 2007 DETAILED AUDIT REPORTS – PARKS AND RECREATION RAPPORT DE VÉRIFICATION DÉTAILLÉ DES PARCS ET LOISIRS DU BUREAU DU
VÉRIFICATEUR GÉNÉRAL POUR L’ANNÉE 2007 |
Committee Recommendation as amended
That Council
refers all 20 recommendations
of the 2007 Detailed Audit of Parks and Recreation back to the next meeting of
the Council Audit Working Group.
Recommandation modifiÉe du Comité
Que le Conseil l’ensemble des 20 recommandations découlant de la
vérification détaillée des parcs et loisirs de 2007 soient renvoyées de nouveau devant le Groupe
de travail du Conseil sur la vérification à l’occasion de sa prochaine réunion.
Documentation
1. Community and Protective Services
Coordinator’s report dated 11 September 2008 (ACS2008-CCS-CPS-0032).
2. Extract of Draft Minutes, 2 October
2008.
Report
to/Rapport au :
Community
and Protective Services Committee
Comité des services communautaires
et de protection
11 September 2008/le 11 septembre
2008
Submitted by/Soumis par : Robert Tremblay, Acting Coordinator,
Community
and Protective Services Committee/
Coordonnateur par intérim du Comité
des services communautaires et de protection
Contact Person/Personne ressource : Alain
Lalonde, Auditor General / Vérificateur général
(613) 580-2424 ext/poste 14226 –
Alain.Lalonde@Ottawa.ca
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Ref N°:
ACS2008-CCS-CPS-0032 |
REPORT
RECOMMENDATION
That the Community and Protective Services Committee consider the 2007 Detailed Audit of Parks and Recreation as referred by Council.
recommandation du rapport
Que le
Comité des services communautaires et de protection examine le Rapport de
vérification détaillé des pars et loisirs conformément au renvoi du Conseil.
At the 11 June 2008 meeting of Ottawa City Council, the Auditor General tabled his 2007 Annual Report and 2007 Detailed Audit Reports. In tabling this report, Council approved the following referral motion:
“That the following audits
be referred to Community and Protective Services Committee for the purpose of
hearing public delegations:
2. – Food Safety Program
4. - Parks and Recreation including: a.) Branch-wide
Audit; b.) Financial Management and Revenue Processes; c.) Canterbury Community
Centre, and; d.) Corporate Pesticide Use Policy
11. - Pride
Week Committee (requested by Council)
No delegations were present at the meeting.
At its meeting of 28 August 2008 meeting, Ottawa City Council referred the Parks and Recreation Audit back to the Community and Protective Services Committee for consideration.
Moved by Councillor M. Wilkinson
Seconded by Councillor J. Harder
That the Parks and Recreation audit be referred
for consideration to the Community and Protective Services Committee.
REFERRAL CARRIED with Councillor D. Deans dissenting
CONSULTATION
This item will be advertised as part of the Public Meeting Advertisement in the daily newspapers on the Friday preceding the Community and Protective Services Committee meeting.
FINANCIAL
IMPLICATIONS
There
are no financial implications directly associated with this report.
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION
Document 1 - ACS2008-OAG-BVG-0005 - OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL - 2007 ANNUAL
REPORT AND 2007 DETAILED AUDIT REPORTS
http://ottawa.ca/city_hall/mayor_council/auditor_general/audit_reports/2007/4a_p_r_branch.pdf (Tabled
at the June 11, 2008 meeting of Ottawa City Council and to be held on file with
the City Clerk.)
Staff to take appropriate action as directed by the Committee.
OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL - 2007 DETAILED AUDIT REPORTS - PARKS AND RECREATION
RAPPORT DE VÉRIFICATION DÉTAILLÉ DES
PARCS ET LOISIRS DU BUREAU DU VÉRIFICATEUR GÉNÉRAL POUR L’ANNÉE 2007
ACS2008-CCS-CPS-0032 CITY-WIDE / À L’ÉCHELLE DE LA VILLE
Councillor Cullen stated that this item had been referred back to this Committee by Council and would like staff to comment on how they will deal with the recommendations listed in the report. He quoted from page 71 of the report: “During the audit, it became clear that the majority of decision-making around recreation programming was made at the facility level, with cost recovery as the biggest driver.” He stated that the report states that the Branch appears decentralized.
Aaron Burry, Director, Parks and Recreation responded stating that many of the issues in the report are being dealt with in organized business plan with short term and long term measures. Some short term measures already implemented for example have been in the swimming program and standardized fees across the city. However, a longer term master plan is being worked on to deal with policy issues such as 1) accessibility and cost recovery, 2) what are the revenues and how are the derived, 3) taxation and 4) service delivery and modality.
Councillor Cullen stated that he was just trying to marry the report with the comments Mr. Burry was making.
Councillor Chiarelli commented that the report should come as no surprise and highlighted examples of public skating times especially during March break where very little time was made available for public skating. He stated that very little time is being spent on recreation issues at City Council and this has been an issue since amalgamation trying to integrate 11 different systems. He would like these recommendations to go before the Council Audit Working Group for their input.
Moved by Councillor Chiarelli
That all 20 recommendations of the 2007 Detailed Audit of Parks and Recreation be referred back to the next meeting of the Council Audit Working Group.
CARRIED
That the Community and Protective Services Committee consider the 2007 Detailed Audit of Parks and Recreation as referred by Council and that all 20 recommendations of the 2007 Detailed Audit of Parks and Recreation be referred back to the next meeting of the Council Audit Working Group.
CARRIED as amended