CITY OF CHICAGO
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR CL-NERAL
740 NORTH SEDGWICK STREET, SUITE 200
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60654
JOSEPH M. FERGUSON TELEPHONE (773)478-7799
INSPECTOR GENERAL FAX (773) 478-3949
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 2018, filed with the City Council pursuant to Section 2-56-120 ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago.
The recently concluded quarter involved reports and dispositions of an array of administrative, criminal, and program inquiries that included hostile work environments involving sexual harassment and assault, misuse of public resources for personal benefit, and identification of standards and controls whose substance or implementation can be improved to protect taxpayer dollars. All of these demonstrate the continuing value of oversight in a dynamic and evolving City during a period of great cultural and structural change. This quarter's audit ofthe City's , process for evaluating and setting user fees, a significant source of City revenue, found that the City does not regularly review all fees to determine whether they are set at levels designed to recover the cost of providing the services related to the fees, or to achieve other policy goals. In a similar fashion, OIG's follow-up inquiry into the Chicago Lives Healthy (CLH) employee wellness program, which originally found that the City spent nearly $10.5 million in taxpayer resources from 2012 through 2014, and, as of June 26, 2018, has paid the vendor $22.8 million since program inception, still hasn't established a performance measurement framework to vet the program's success in improving employee health and reducing healthcare costs overall. The City is moving forward with no "plan to set specific health status or healthcare saving targets for the current CLH progr...
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