Question

Capital Asset Maintenance Programs: Road Maintenance - Describe the objectives of an audit of the effectiveness of the city's pothole repair program and what steps would you take to accomplish those objectives.

Answer 1

The objectives of this audit were to:

1) Determine if the City is adequately protecting its roads as a capital asset and

2) Assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the City's Pothole Repair Program

3) Determine the accuracy and reliability of core operational data;

4) Analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of current pothole repair operations;

5) Evaluate the pothole repair response time analyzed both by council district and city wide; and

6) Identify best practices used by other government pothole repair operations.

Steps to take to accomplish the above objectives.

1. Perform data reliability testing to determine the accuracy and completeness of the data.
2. Focus the testing on the key operational data fields within its core information system by comparing the system data to the source documents.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of current pothole operations.
4. Analyze the available pothole repair data to determine repair location as well as miles driven per day.
5. Perform the mileage analysis by reviewing a sample of the daily routes used by the pothole repair crews.
6. Compare the City of pothole repair operations with other cities pothole repair operations.