today i have an associate auditor, skogin, and i am here to highlight my office's work to follow up on recommendations we issued. and a summary of our follow-up that we reported is on the summary page. the benefit is not in the findings but in the implementation of corrective action. and by conducting follow-ups it helps ensure that departments are implementing change and helps city management. and it allows us to assess the value of our audit work. and our office does two types of follow-up work, regular and field follow up. we do follow ups for two years after they are issued. in these follow-ups we periodically ask departments to report to us on the implementation status. we may select certain high-risk audits for the field follow up. where we go back into the department and gather evidence and determine if each is implemented. for details of our follow-up process you can refer to the report. for the next slides i will provide a follow-up activity for the second quarter, and provide highlights for specific reports in the memorandum for the follow-up activity. and i will give an over

. >> i am kat skogin, the auditor that led this audit. in this system they had great reporting tools, and part of the contract had someone come in from the vendor that has their reporting structure to look at their pricing and to make sure they were maximizing the pricing tiers, and maximizing the leverage with the individual contracts. but there was not a comparison with the vendors outside of this group of the organization. that's what we were asking for to periodically look at is this comparable to what you get outside of this group organization. or are we just trusting them to get the best price. >> okay, i got it, thank you. and you are saying that process will take between 12-18 months? >> for the entire organization, it's in place for two locations. to share those tools and to leverage that volume across the department and achieve the maximized savings. >> okay, thank you. >> any other questions? >> no thanks. >> now i would like to highlight some field follow-up work as related to a 2010 audit, two audits, sfp release division. re