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quarterl y report of the Office of Inspector General Second Quarter 2016
July 2016
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Joseph M. Ferguson Inspector General
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
City of Chicago
740 N Sedgwick, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 Telephone: (773) 478-7799 Fax: (773) 478-3949
July 15,2016
To the Mayor, Members of the City Council, the City Clerk, the City Treasurer, and the residents of the City of Chicago:
Enclosed for your review is the public report on the operations of the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) during the second quarter of 2016, filed with the City Council pursuant to Section 2-56-120 of the Municipal Code of Chicago.
The activities summarized in this quarterly report speak to both the progress and the many challenges that the City still faces in creating a paradigm of proactive ethical government. In particular this quarterly report summarizes actions that departments are taking to reform their systems based on OIG's work. In June, the Mayor committed his office and the City to the concept of building comprehensive risk management so that claims are no longer seen as a cost of doing business but are analyzed for trends and preemptively addressed. In addition, the Department of Finance and the Department of Water Management worked together to address the findings of a 2015 OIG audit in a way that will bring marked improvement to the City's water billing system. Finally, a contractor followed the letter and the spirit of its duty to cooperate by taking immediate action to terminate an employee, after the employee refused to cooperate with OIG's investigation into allegations of bribery.
However, also in this report are reminders of just how far the City has to go. The responsive initiative for comprehensive risk management purposefully ...
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