City Hall and Court House

15 West Kellogg

Boulevard

City of Saint Paul

3rd Floor

Meeting Agenda

Audit Committee

Councilmember Rebecca Noecker, Chair

Councilmember Saura Jost, Councilmember

Councilmember HwaJeong Kim, Councilmember

Councilmember Mitra Jalali (ex-officio)

Dana M. DeMaster, Community Advisor

Stephanie D. Dilworth, Community Advisor

James T. Farnsworth, Community Advisor

Jeremy Lostetter, Community Advisor

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

2:00 PM

City Hall, 3rd Floor

Roll Call

SR 24-104

Audit Committee Agenda

Attachments: Audit Committee - Wilder Research Mid-Term Report_7-24

Agenda

1. Updates

Midpoint Report on parks and Libraries

2. Topic Discussion

Feasibility of next topic: CIB

How should the topic be scoped: Are the changes that the city made regarding the focus

areas working? How do we measure that in some regards? Who's participating and where

are the investments being made?

Is the two-year cycle for city department-submitted projects and

community-submitted projects working effectively?

How are members of the public engaged for membership to the CIB Committee and

community-submitted projects?

Is there an economic equity piece in the CB process during the grant cycles?

Whether the project would land in the same place if looked from an equity lens. Whether

the process is producing the equitable result that the city is looking to achieve

(education component) What worked in some wards and not others? Process-wise,

how do you help take an applicant from point A to point Z? How well-informed is the

community on projects submission and decision? What would a process improvement

look like in understanding how knowledge of the process works, i.e., institutional

knowledge, community folk’s knowledge, background, and experience with the process,

etc.? What process improvements would look like with these insights? Is there an

obstacle with knowledge or understanding of this new process? Are there concentrations

of institutional knowledge that need to be addressed?

Regarding the Community process, are CIB committee members intended to act as

community ambassadors? Is the CIB committee fully filled? Who are the CIB committee

members, where are they from? and does that track with where the applications are

coming from (e.g., where the investments are made). How does the vacancy on the CIB

committee compare to other boards? Is the vacancy typical or is it just a challenge for

the CIB committee, or is it a challenge of community participation post COVID? Did the

new process achieve what the community wanted in terms of necessity versus creativity

and innovation?

Whether the city can spend more relative to the city’s operating budget on a capital

improvement project. Whether the CIB amount determined for allocation still an

appropriate amount? How much they spend on capital versus operating budget and how

does that compare to the city’s overall budget? How does that compare to other cities?

Looking at the historical information and areas of investment, where and who are the

city investing in? Is the equality of resources being spread out through the city and then

who are these businesses that are receiving the support? Where are the resources being

distributed?

3. Other Business

Adjournment