The Program Management Team (PMT) at WaterWorks 2011 is doing a good job. That was the finding of a recent external audit of the WaterWorks program by the accounting firm of Sharpton, Brunson and Company, P.A. of Miami (SBC). Staff members were pleased.

 

According to WaterWorks 2011 Program Director Nannette Woods, the audit report served to confirm the “solid program management practices in place” at WaterWorks.

 

This wasn’t the first audit that had good things to say about the WaterWorks program. The City of Fort Lauderdale conducted its own internal audits of WaterWorks which yielded positive results. Then, in April 2007, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission awarded SBC a contract to conduct an external audit that would provide a comprehensive management review of WaterWorks. SBC revealed in its Oct. 12, report that the WaterWorks Program Management Team has:
• sufficient management controls
• produced reliable and timely financial and operating results
• complied with applicable laws, regulations and contracts
• effectively contributed to the successful execution of the program

 

The audit also recommends areas in which PMT can improve.   The firm concluded that PMT should make changes in its reporting and improve the Change Control Board process.

“Implementing these enhancements will only serve to further strengthen the solid program management practices already in use on the WaterWorks program,” Woods commented.