What should residents consider about Finding F5.1: F5.1: The City EMD’s and County OEM’s responsibilities are not well understood by some elected officials, making it difficult for these departments to secure adequate funding and staffing., and the County’s response?
Audit context
Response says
County partially disagrees within County operations, citing 44 positions approved for FY 2026–2027 and 39 additional positions planned across FYs 2027–2028 and 2028–2029, with budget increases. It does not directly address elected officials' understanding or its alleged effect on resources.
Audit analysis
Explicit County-only partial disagreement supplies a fiscal-year-specific budget basis, but does not adequately map disagreement or reasons to the understanding-and-funding causal claim. Resource changes provide relevant but incomplete reasoning. Report physical PDF page(s) 231; County response physical PDF page(s) 44. Claims remain attributed; adoption date is not a filing or receipt date.
Finding-response score
Document completeness and usefulness—not factual verification or a legal conclusion.
3/4
Statutory elements
4/6
Public usefulness
Explicit County-only partial disagreement supplies a fiscal-year-specific budget basis, but does not adequately map disagreement or reasons to the understanding-and-funding causal claim. Resource changes provide relevant but incomplete reasoning.
Scoring confidence: high
Source pages
Public participation
Use Pol.is to discuss both the Grand Jury finding and the County’s response, see where participants agree, and add a perspective for others to consider. Participant statements do not alter this audit or verify factual claims made by any participant or source document.