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The El Paso Audit Record

Whether the City checks its own work, in the City's own documents

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FIG. 00 — Standing disclosure

This is not a City of El Paso publication. It is an independent project run by an El Paso resident. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, funded by, or connected to the City of El Paso, its Internal Audit Department, or the Financial Oversight and Audit Committee — a committee of the El Paso City Council. Nothing here is an official city communication. Everything here is drawn from documents the City publishes about itself, and every one of them is cited.

FIG. 01 — The question

Does the record show anyone checking?

Four kinds of published document, read against each other

The City of El Paso publishes annual audit plans, quarterly hour ledgers, consultant assessments, and a policies manual describing exactly how its own oversight is supposed to work. This record reads those documents against each other and reports what they show — including where a promise made in one document doesn't appear in the ones that follow.

It takes no position on whether any specific agreement was a good idea. It asks a narrower question: when the City's own auditors find something and management promises to fix it, does the record show anyone checking?

FIG. 02 — Five ways in

The record, opened five ways

Numbers, ledger, sources, authorship, method

Filed · Forthcoming

A scored evaluation of the FY2026–27 audit plan launches September 2026, against criteria already published.