Annual Report

The 2016 Annual Report for the Office of the Commission Auditor (OCA) is submitted in accordance with Sec. 2-479 of the Code of Miami-Dade County. During the year, the OCA continued to provide the highest quality professional services by:

• Completing 10 audit and non-audit service projects, following-up on previously unresolved findings from prior audits, providing audit technical assistance for various projects and inquiries, and continuing work on ongoing audit and non-audit service projects;
• Providing analytical budgetary reports and approximately 70 responses to Commissioners pertaining to various issues and budget items;
• Providing a summarized Performance Measures report to the Committeees in preparation for the Budget Cycle; 
• Analyzing the County’s budget to identify savings without impacting delivery of services;
• Providing Research Notes for approximately 22 BCC agendas and approximately 50 Committee agendas;
• Reviewing approximately 24 BCC and all 54 Committee agendas (as per Chairman Jean Monestime), and providing as supplements to the BCC agenda;
• Verifying accuracy of Board directives status details and producing quarterly reports to the BCC as per Resolution No. R-256-10;
• Providing detailed financial costs and budgetary impacts analyses for items with a fiscal impact as per Resolution No. R-530-10;
• Providing Gender Equity Date for the first Status of Women report in Miami-Dade County, as per Ordinance No. 15-87.
• Providing Tourism Impact Statements on certain legislative matters before the BCC as per Resolution No. R-581-11;
• Conducting background research on any person, organization, place or thing that is the subject of a naming, renaming or co-designation item as per Ordinance 13-29;
• Conducting 69 background checks on members serving on evaluation and selection committees as per Resolution No. R-449-14;
• Completing 68 background research on applicants being considered to serve on County Boards and Trusts as per Resolution No. R-636-14; and
• Responding to formal and informal requests from the BCC on important County matters.

The nature and scope of these accomplishments clearly demonstrate our commitment to value-added services and the dedicated efforts of our talented professionals. We look forward to continuing our work with the BCC.