City Of Kansas City: Audit To Evaluate City Efforts To Address Illegal Dumping

Press release from the City of Kansas City:

09/23/2021 2:10 PM

NEWS RELEASE CONTACT: Douglas Jones, City Auditor, (816) 513-3300

The City Auditor’s Office has begun an audit to review how the city is addressing illegal dumping. The Public Works Solid Waste Division is responsible for the city’s illegal dumping operation program. The program deals with garbage, rubbish, yard waste, or large debris dumped in public places or on private properties without the consent of the owner. Addressing illegal dumping is important to the city’s residents and according to the most recent resident survey, satisfaction with the city’s efforts to clean-up illegal dump sites is only 20%. Residents expressed concerns to the City Auditor’s Office about city efforts to deal with illegal dumping in Kansas City and suggested we audit those efforts. The objectives of this audit are to evaluate how the city can improve community engagement efforts to reduce illegal dumping and how long it takes the city to respond to illegal dumping complaints and clean-up illegal dump sites. View the audit Scope Statement online on our Recent Reports page. The scope statement is scheduled to be presented at the Council Business Session at 2 p.m. on Thursday, September 23, 2021. Did you know you can submit audit ideas to the city auditor?

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